Warning: This story contains descriptions of child sexual abuse.

Growing up in the Latrobe Valley in the 1990s, the name Peter Farmer was notorious.

People knew of the teacher who had abused children at Newborough, but nobody knew just how bad the abuse was.

Thirty years later, a proper police investigation spanning three years would reveal what victims think is just the tip of the iceberg.

While Farmer serves his sentence in prison, six of his victims are suing the Victorian Education Department for failing to protect them and for what they allege was its inaction, which led to him teaching and offending further in the Northern Territory.

Lola* was sexually abused every day at school for two years.

Farmer had many methods of disguising his abuse.

But largely, it was brazen and in p

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