AUSTRALIA
The Australian
DAN BOX THE AUSTRALIAN JANUARY 30, 2014
BOYS living at a Salvation Army children’s home in Sydney were sent to stay with adults and forced to have sex, or were sexually abused by unknown men who broke into their dormitories at night, an inquiry has been told.
In a written statement read to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse today, one such victim described how this abuse took place at the Bexley boys’ home run by Salvation Army officer Captain Lawrence Wilson.
“He physically raped me in his office within a few months of being there and it happened several more times,” the man, who cannot be named, alleged in his statement.
“You would be sent out to stay with other people and they would do it to you or there were the prowlers, men who allegedly broke into the place at night and tampered with the boys.
“Even now I still can’t sleep. There you would get visited in the night, so you were scared, you couldn’t fall asleep.
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