UNITED KINGDOM
The Guardian (UK)
Australian Associated Press
theguardian.com, Monday 3 February 2014
New South Wales police beat boys who ran away from a Salvation Army home where they were being abused, a hearing in Sydney has been told.
Mark Stiles told the royal commission into child sexual abuse he was 12 when he was sexually abused at the Gill Memorial Home in Goulburn, NSW, by Captain Russell Walker, who would create circumstances to be alone with him.
Stiles said he would be woken up at 3am and taken to the bathroom by Walker. He said the abuse happened four times a week over the 14-month period he was at Gill, in 1971 and 1972.
He was too scared to tell anyone, the commission heard. He ran away twice. The first time he and another boy were picked up by a police car not far from the home.
Stiles said he had told police he had been physically abused by Captain Lawrence Wilson, who was managing the home, and sexually abused by Walker.
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