AUSTRALIA
Whitsunday Times
Jessica Grewal 29th Jan 2014
A TORMENTED retiree, who was subjected to unimaginable childhood abuse at a Riverview boy’s home, has unloaded decades of grief at a public hearing in Sydney.
Giving evidence before the royal commission into Institutional Responses into to Child Sex Abuse, Raymond Carlile wept as he recalled children being raped and beaten until they bled under the watch of the Salvation Army.
The 67-year-old, who in 2010 received a $100,000 in compensation from the Salvation Army, told the commission he was eight when he was sent to the home which later became known as the Endeavour Training Farm.
For three hours, Mr Carlile struggled through his accounts of the persistent sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of a man known as Lieutenant Lawrence Wilson.
He told the commission Lt Wilson had said “I want you, you dirty little thing”, the night he “grabbed” him from his bed, told him to get undressed and raped him.
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