AUSTRALIA
Daily Telegraph
Mitchell Toy
Herald Sun
December 18, 2012
CLAIMS that orphans were murdered, tortured or left to die from injuries while under the care of religious organisations and the state were heard yesterday by a state parliamentary inquiry into child abuse.
Former wards of the state have called for a public apology and compensation for abuse committed in orphanages and foster homes between the 1950s and 1980s.
Angela Sdrinis, of Ryan Carlisle Thomas lawyers, said the firm had been contacted by hundreds of alleged victims of abuse who had levelled claims against religious personnel from the Salvation Army, various church denominations and even a Buddhist monk.
She told the inquiry alleged victims had claimed the Bayswater Boys Home, operated by the Salvation Army in the 1950s, was a hotbed of paedophiles and that some boys had disappeared without a trace.
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