Before coming to the Philippines, Hilton Reece Munro the Australian national alleged to have engaged in sexual trysts with minors in Compostela town used to be a school head in China.
Munro and an alleged cohort, taxi driver Gilbert Andrada were charged with human trafficking and child abuse last Monday.
Munro was the head of Zhuhai International School in Zhuhai City in Guangdong province, China before he ended his work and decided to come to the Philippines to work according to Sydney Morning Herald (SMH).
“A woman who answered the school’s after-hours numbers said Mr. Munro finished up at the school at the end of the term and was intending to work in the Philippines,” SMH report said.
Zhuhai International School is a school for the international community living in Zhuhai province. They offer classes from nursery to Grade 13. Their teaching staff comes from native English speaking countries like Australia.
The school has more than 160 students from 28 nationalities.
Based on the profile, posted in the school’s website last year, Munro was an educator for 15 years mostly in ‘leadership positions’.
“I bring a depth of knowledge regarding education because I have worked across all levels of schools as a classroom teacher, curriculum coordinator, program leader and principal,” his profile reads before it was taken down.
Munro has been teaching in Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Middle East thus claimed to have “strong global perspective”.
He was also a teacher in a private school in Melbourne, Australia before his stint in Zhuhai International School.
Sydney Morning Herald said he was also a hockey player and has traveled in India with the Australian Universities Hockey Team. He was also a team captain of the New Zealand Indoor Hockey Team who competed in South Africa.
In 2003, Munro was found not guilty of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old boy in a Melbourne boarding school.
In the early 2000, the Australian newspaper said Munro “was heavily involved in boarding life at the prestigious Melbourne school, coaching hockey teams, refereeing matches, organizing special father-son ‘working bees’ and ‘cooking up feasts’ for groups in weekends away to the bush.”
In 1999 to 2000, groups of Year 7 students and international students on weekend outings.