AUSTRALIA
ABC Canberra
[with audio]
By Sukayna Sadik, Kate Corbett and Genevieve Jacobs
A former Goulburn resident claims he was physically and emotionally abused as a child while in the care of Salvation Army officers from the mid-1960s.
At just four years old, Jim Luthy was orphaned when his mother died and his father abandoned him. He was placed under the Salvation Army’s care in Goulburn but his experiences at the Gill Memorial Home left him traumatised.
“It was a place of extreme brutality,” Mr Luthy told Genevieve Jacobs on 666 Mornings. (Listen to attached audio)
“I was abused physically by a Salvation Army Officer there. I wrote to the Salvation Army, they acknowledged that this officer was an extreme abuser, they didn’t dispute that, eventually. They gave me a number of pay outs for the abuse but I was abused physically, bashed, hit and – for anything – abused emotionally.”
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