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The Australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse is due in a couple of weeks to hold hearings involving four Salvation Army Boys’ Homes, under the control of the organization’s Eastern Territory. Dozens of other Homes will not be mentioned, so they have been covered in this blog (see previous postings). Today, there are a few more.

The Salvation Army, unlike the author, will appear before the hearings, and enter a submission. It is likely that minor officials of the Salvation Army will appear (as happened at the Victorian State Parliamentary enquiry last year), but not its head, James Condon (pictured above). Cardinal George Pell did not appear at the last commission hearings, on the Catholic Church’s “Towards Healing” process (see previous postings).

Only the local New South Wales State head of the YMCA appeared at the YMCA hearings, and similarly for the Scouts…