AUSTRALIA
Illawarra Mercury
By ANNETTE BLACKWELL Feb. 1, 2014
The Salvation Army has a lot of questions to answer.
For almost three decades there were alleged rapes, floggings and punishments at their Dickensian boys’ homes in NSW and Queensland.
The evidence has been exposed at the royal commission into child sexual abuse.
The stories are so horrific that some news operations have steered clear of publishing full details of the acts of some Salvation Army officers, in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s.
The Salvation Army is not challenging evidence by the string of witnesses – former residents of four homes being examined in detail by the commission.
It is not the first time Australians have heard these horror stories. In 1999 the Queensland Forde commission looked into the Indooroopilly home and the Riverview Training Farm in Queensland, both of which are on the commission’s list.
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