AUSTRALIA
ABC News
[with audio]
The royal commission into child sexual abuse will today examine cases of abuse that took place at four Salvation Army boys’ homes in Queensland and New South Wales.
The two-week investigation will scrutinise how the prominent charity has dealt with instances of child sexual abuse, and how the Salvation Army dealt with offenders in its ranks.
The Salvation Army says the abuse, most of which took part in the 1960s and 70s, is a “failure of the greatest magnitude”.
Robert Conway was 13 when he was sent to one of the boys’ homes.
“First impressions… well I was molested the first night I was there by the major who ran the place,” he said
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