Ian Francis Hailes and Anthony Paul Webb – who were both sacked following a school rugby trip with Perth’s Trinity College to Japan in 2017 – were fined $1,200 and handed suspended sentences in the Perth Magistrates Court on Wednesday. 
They are believed to be the first people convicted for failing to report suspected child sexual abuse under mandatory reporting laws in Western Australia. Both teachers were informed that one of the students was allegedly sexually assaulted by some of his teammates at a hotel on the outskirts of Tokyo in April of 2017. Failing to act on the alleged matter resulted in Wednesday’s suspended sentence. The victim, who alleges he was held face-down and assaulted anally with a carrot, was tormented by his alleged rapists and teammates on social media following the incident.Days after the alleged attack, a mocked-up cover of a music magazine featuring a band called ‘The Carrots’ with a new single called ‘Uranus’ was widely distributed online as well as a cartoon of a carrot with the young man’s face which was labelled ‘Carrot Man’.
The multiple teenagers accused of the alleged sexual assault avoided criminal charges due to the difficulties of prosecuting alleged crimes committed in Japan by juveniles from another country.
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