AUSTRALIA
Ipswich Advertiser
Jessica Grewal 4th Feb 2014 6:00 AM
A MISSING boy, who ran away from a Salvation Army children’s home, fell into the hands of a pedophile ring and likely ended up “at the bottom of Sydney Harbour” the royal commission heard.
In some of the most chilling evidence before the inquiry into abuse at four of the army’s boys homes, Salvation Army Major Cliff Randall recalled a time in the ’70s when a regular runaway from the Indooroopilly home went missing and never returned.
The commission heard he and his wife Marina had been outraged by the treatment of children at the Indooroopilly home and were trying to get management to step in when a boy returned from a long stint away and confided in him.
He said the boy told him that he and a victim who can only be referred to as “HT” had been picked up by unknown men outside the home, taken to a millionaire hardware store owner in Brisbane, given chocolates and drinks and flown to Sydney where they were to have sex with a “top chef” at Paddington.
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