AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Thomas Oriti
Police were receiving fresh allegations against a Salvation Army officer right up until his death, the royal commission into child sexual abuse has heard.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is examining allegations of sexual abuse at four Salvation Army boys homes between the 1950s and the 1970s
Homes at Bexley in Sydney’s south, Goulburn in southern New South Wales, Indooroopilly in Brisbane and Riverview on the outskirts of Ipswich and are a key focus.
Detective Inspector Paul Jacob from the NSW Sex Crimes Squad has told the commission he received a letter from Salvation Army Major Peter Farthing in June 2008, detailing fresh allegations against another officer.
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