AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
January 31, 2014
Paul Bibby
Court Reporter
NSW Police had evidence an alleged paedophile network may have been operated by a Salvation Army officer from a southern Sydney boys home in the 1960s but never questioned the alleged ring leader or other officers, the Royal Commission has heard.
As the ongoing investigation into Salvation Amy boys homes in NSW and Queensland focused on the Home for Boys at North Bexley, the commission heard that in the late 1990s a former resident told police he had been sent to three properties 30 years earlier where he was raped and abused.
The man who organised the trips, the commission heard, was Captain Lawrence Wilson.
”I had been called to Wilson’s office [and] when I arrived there was a man and a woman in the office with Wilson,” the former resident said in a statement, which was read to the commission as its author sat fighting back tears.
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