A former teacher who sexually abused primary school-aged boys in Perth, and one on Rottnest Island, in the 1970s in 1980s has been found guilty of multiple charges.

WARNING: This story contains details of sexual abuse that readers may find distressing.

Rodney Neville Watkins, 76, has been on trial in the WA District Court on 14 charges of indecent dealing, accused of abusing four boys.

He was found guilty of all charges.

The court had been told Watkins and his partner Robert Lefroy, who was also a teacher and is now deceased, had abused boys at the schools where they taught and in their shared home in Perth, among other places.

One boy was abused after Watkins had taken him out on a boat on the Swan River, while another was assaulted by both men in a tent at popular holiday destinatio

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