AUSTRALIA
Brimbank & North West Weekly
By Barney Zwartz
April 11, 2013
The Salvation Army has had 473 complaints about abuse in its Victorian children’s home and has spent nearly $20 million settling them.
But while its representatives could give no explanation of how predators got away with it for so long, it denied there had been a culture of abuse.
The Salvation Army had almost no records of children in the homes, but had not tried to hide, shred or dispose of them, Captain Malcolm Roberts told the Victorian inquiry into how the churches handled child sexual abuse.
The last homes closed in the 1980s, and the church dealt with some 35,000 children, he said.
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