AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Thomas Oriti
The Salvation Army has suspended an officer being investigated by the royal commission into child sexual abuse.
John McIver is one of five men who are the focus of the inquiry’s hearings into the sexual and physical abuse of children at four boys’ homes run by the Christian church.
But when the hearing began this week it emerged that he was the only alleged perpetrator who was still a current Salvation Army member.
His suspension comes on the same day as the inquiry heard boys at a Salvation Army home in Sydney were “rented out” to strangers who sexually abused them.
This afternoon the Salvation Army issued a statement.
“In light of evidence tendered to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the Salvation Army has suspended retired Salvation Army officer John McIver pending further investigations in regards to the matters raised,” the statement said.
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