AUSTRALIA
ABC News
[with video]
By Conor Duffy
Lewis Blayse had been campaigning to bring the Salvation Army to account for decades after he was abused at a home run by the organisation, but on Friday he gave his final interview to 7.30.
He died of a heart attack that night.
Mr Blayse was abused as a boy in the Alkira home at Indooroopilly in Queensland between 1958 and 1960, and helped to raise awareness of the issue.
The home is currently the focus of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
His daughter, Aletha Blayse, helped him run his blog, which he used to connect victims and provide analysis on the commission.
Today Ms Blayse told 7.30 her father was the happiest she had ever seen him after his interview on Friday and a week of extensive coverage of the allegations against the Salvation Army.
“He was on top of the world, I’ve never seen him look so happy,” she said.
“He said now that the media was paying attention that the word would be getting out.”
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