AUSTRALIA
Sky News
A Salvation Army officer in Sydney would send boys who were in care to the homes of adults to be sexually assaulted, an inquiry has been told.
The officer, Captain Lawrence Wilson, was moved by the Salvation Army between four boys’ homes in Queensland and NSW between the late 1950s and 1977.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse began its investigation at a public hearing in Sydney on Tuesday into what happened at those homes – the Alkira Home for Boys at Indooroopilly and the Endeavour Training Farm at Riverview, both in Queensland, as well as the Bexley Boys Home in Sydney and the Gill Memorial Home in Goulburn, NSW.
All the homes have since closed.
Mr Wilson, who died in 2008, began his career in 1956 when he was posted as an assistant officer to the Riverview farm.
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