AUSTRALIA
Telegraph (UK)
Salvation Army ‘rented out’ boys at Sydney children’s home in Sydney to paedophiles
By Jonathan Pearlman, Sydney 30 Jan 2014
Boys at a Salvation Army children’s home in Australia were “rented out” to paedophiles who entered their dormitories at night, a royal commission into child sexual abuse has heard.
One boy was sent by a superintendent, Captain Lawrence Wilson, to the home of a husband and wife, who sexually abused him. The couple were in Salvation Army uniforms and the woman “had short blond hair and looked to be in her 30s,” the alleged victim told the commission. He said he returned to the home and revealed what had happened to Captain Wilson, who said the couple were “good people” and caned the boy 18 times.
“The sexual attacks on myself are the hardest things to deal with, one day you are a boy the next you are a shell walking around,” he said.
Another man told the commission that the boys, who lived at a Salvation Army home in Sydney, would sometimes be sexually abused by men who broke into their rooms at night.
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