AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Thomas Oriti
The royal commission into child sexual abuse has heard a Salvation Army officer working at a children’s home punched boys as young as four in the face.
Wally McLeod has told the commission about his time at the Alkira Salvation Army Home for Boys at Indooroopilly in Queensland.
The facility is one of four operated by the Salvation Army that is being examined by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Over the next two weeks, the commission will also focus on cases at the Riverview Training Farm in Queensland, the Bexley Boys Home in Sydney and the Gill Memorial Home at Goulburn in southern New South Wales.
Mr McLeod was 12 when he was taken to the Indooroopilly home in 1960.
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