AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Children at a Salvation Army home in Queensland were fed food donated for animals, savagely beaten, sexually abused and locked in a cage, an inquiry has been told.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which is examining four homes run by the Salvos in NSW and Queensland from 1966-77, has been told that evidence to be given of corporal punishment and sexual abuse at the homes were some of the most disturbing the commission had heard.
It is at the ‘severe end of abuse’ examined by the commission, the opening of a two-week hearing in Sydney heard on Tuesday.
Simeon Beckett, counsel assisting the commission, said the hearing would hear many allegations about five identified officers, ‘Laurence Wilson, Russell Walker, Victor Bennett, John McIver and Donald Schultz’.
Mr Walker, Mr Schultz and Mr McIver are still alive and have been given notice of the hearing.
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