AUSTRALIA
Telegraph
NATHAN KLEIN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH JANUARY 29, 2014
* Boys ‘were assaulted in showers and were too afraid to complain’
* Victim recalls how elder boys would rape younger residents
* One ‘violent officer’ would punch boys as young as four years old
SALVATION Army officers fondled boys’ penises while they were in the shower, assaulted them frequently and did nothing when told one of the boys in their care was raped, an inquest heard today.
Speaking at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, one man – identified to the public inquest only as Mr F P – said he was regularly subjected to sexual abuse and sadistic punishment by officers who were supposed to be caring for him.
He told the inquiry one of the officers, Lieutenant Spratt, approached him and other boys staying at the Salvation Army homes while they were naked in the showers.
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