AUSTRALIA
Goulburn Post
By LOUISE THROWER Feb. 7, 2014
A SALVATION Army officer described as “the most prolific of alleged child sexual abusers” was dismissed from the organisation but re-accepted four years later.
In the interim, Captain Lawrence Wilson served as a government child welfare officer, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has heard.
When finally brought to trial in 1997 for alleged sexual abuse of two boys at the Salvation Army’s Bexley Boys Home, he was acquitted of all charges.
Sixteen former residents of Gill Memorial Boys Home, Bexley, Indooroopilly and Riverview institutions have alleged at the Commission that Wilson sexually abused them.
The Army’s Major Farthing has described Wilson as the Eastern Territory’s “most serious offender.”
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