AUSTRALIA
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ABC
BY THOMAS ORITI
January 28, 2014
The royal commission into child sexual abuse has heard harrowing details of abuse within children’s homes operated by the Salvation Army.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse this morning began its fifth inquiry, this time examining cases of abuse at four boys’ homes operated by the prominent charity.
The hearing will investigate incidents at the Alkira Salvation Army Home for Boys at Indooroopilly in Queensland, the Riverview Training Farm at Riverview in Queensland, the Bexley Boys’ Home in Sydney, and the Gill Memorial Home at Goulburn in southern New South Wales.
At least five Salvation Army officers will be scrutinised by the commission, with 13 former residents of the homes expected to give evidence in the coming days.
Counsel assisting the commission Simeon Beckett told the inquiry the content is at the “severe end” of the sexual abuse examined in the case studies to date.
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