AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Thomas Oriti
Children at a Salvation Army boys’ home in Sydney were “rented out” to strangers who sexually abused them, the royal commission into child sexual abuse has heard.
The Bexley Boys Home in Sydney’s south is one of four homes being examined by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Until now, former residents of two homes in Queensland have given evidence about being beaten and sexually abused.
Today the inquiry turned its focus to the Bexley home, and a police investigation launched in the 1990s after several men came forward.
Detective Inspector Rick Cunningham investigated the allegations of abuse at the home.
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