AUSTRALIA
News Mail
Shelley Strachan 29th Jan 2014
THE royal commission into the institutional responses to shocking child sexual abuse at Salvation Army homes in the 1960s and ’70s heard evidence on its first day yesterday from the Gympie court house.
A key witness who now lives in retirement in Kilkivan was one of the young boys who suffered unspeakable, prolonged abuse.
Incredibly – and it’s a testament to the human spirit – his courage and resilience were not utterly destroyed at the hands of, in particular, one depraved monster left in charge of the young boys.
It is not easy to stay calm and rational when you are confronted with the brutal reality of what some humans are capable of.
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