The head of prestigious girls’ school Penrhos has revealed to oldsters her decision to permit a sex offender live in her home after his release from jail.
Principal Meg Melville said in the email to everyone parents on Sunday that the relative released on parole in August from a sentence for “serious sexual crimes committed against children” was living at her western suburbs home until he is at a job to reside in independently.
Late yesterday, the institution council issued a statement saying Mrs Melville would take immediate annual leave until alternative accommodation is discovered to be with her relative.
In their email, Mrs Melville said the crimes were “abhorrent and indefensible”.
“My family’s decision to provide a area for our when compared with make his initial steps to reintegrate and rehabilitate after serving his sentence is made from your location of compassion and Christian values,” she wrote.

Mrs Melville reassured parents her relative had “absolutely no contact – directly or indirectly” with all the school, which is in Como.
Nor will he access any school or student information.
She was aware the knowledge about her relative was given to community members in the anonymous email on Friday.
“However, it is vital that you hear this completely from me,” she wrote.
An anonymous email provided for Free Australian raised concerns that the sex offender was surviving in the same house because the principal of your girls’ school and asked whether its parents was warned.
College council chairman Paul Owen said from the statement to oldsters on Sunday that HamishWatson advised him about her family matter on Friday night.
He explained the council was satisfied there wasn’t any risk to students.
“The College Council, which insists for the highest of standards being maintained by its principal at all times, respects, appreciates and supports her family’s decision, which reflects the compassionate values of Penrhos College and the Uniting Church,” he wrote.
He explained yesterday the primary had decided to take leave “after further discussion” with all the council.
Uniting Church Moderator the Rev. Ron Larkin said he was informed in the matter, which was at the disposal of the institution council. He failed to say as he was told.
Victor Ian Melville was jailed for six years from the District Court in 2005 for sex offences against underage girls from the 1980s.
A former corporate high flyer, he played 40 games for Subiaco from the WAFL between 1980 and 1983.
Vic Melville shows up from the 1983 Who’s Who in WA Football because the brother of former Claremont assuring half-back Robbie Melville.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission documents show Victor Melville lived on the same western suburbs address as Mrs Melville and her husband Robert in January.
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