AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By JOANNE McCARTHY Jan. 29, 2014
GRAHAM Rundle was seven when he was first raped at a Salvation Army boys’ home in South Australia and placed in a “lock-up”, 18 when he first tried to commit suicide, 48 when he turned to the Salvos for justice, and 58 when he comprehensively beat them.
He is now 61 and ready to give evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse after angrily rejecting the Salvation Army’s apology this week for horrific abuse at its NSW and Queensland homes.
“They’re bastards,” he said.
“I was repeatedly raped as a child in the 1960s but they abused me again in a different way when I reported it as an adult, and they didn’t have to do that.
“I want to give evidence in public. I want to be named. I want people to know what the bastards were like then, and what they’re like now. They did everything in their power to get rid of me.”
Mr Rundle, of Bucketty, was known by a number at Eden Park boys’ home.
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