AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Australian Associated Press
theguardian.com, Thursday 30 January 2014
A New South Wales police strike force investigated whether a Salvation Army officer was running a paedophile ring and renting out boys, a royal commission has heard.
However, it did not find enough evidence to pursue the case.
Strike Force Cori, which was set up after the Wood royal commission to investigate allegations of paedophilia against a district court judge, also looked at whether Captain Lawrence Wilson, who managed the Salvation Army’s home for boys at Bexley in south Sydney, organised a paedophile ring.
Wilson had been acquitted on multiple charges of buggery and indecent assault in 1997.
The Salvation Army has since paid out more than $1.2m in compensation – some of it to victims of Wilson.
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