AUSTRALIA
Telegraph
JANET FIFE-YEOMANS NEWS LIMITED JANUARY 30, 2014
* Victim, 52, breaks down as he tells story of time at Bexley
* Wilson, who died in 2008, went on to have numerous jobs related to children
* He also ‘sent boys out from the home to have sex with couples and women’
The worst sex fiend in the Salvation Army was dismissed not for raping young boys – but because he had slept with his fiance.
The hypocrisy of the Salvos has been exposed at the royal commission into child sex abuse when, despite leaving a trail of abused young boys in the 50s, 60s and 70s at four Salvation Army homes, Captain Lawrence Wilson was recommended for promotion to major in 1982.
One of Wilson’s victims at Bexley Boys’ Home in Sydney, now aged 52, broke down in the witness box yesterday, unable to read his statement.
“My life was not too bad until I met Captain Wilson,” the man, a miner, had written.
“The sexual attacks on myself are still the hardest thing to deal with. One day you are a boy, then the next you are a shell walking around.
“I have been back to Bexley Boys’ Home looking for what I lost, but where do you start?”
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