AUSTRALIA
7 News
ABC
BY THOMAS ORITI
February 11, 2014
A leader of the Salvation Army has cried while apologising to victims of child sexual abuse at boys homes run by the organisation.
Commissioner James Condon is the leader of the Salvation Army’s Eastern Territory, covering New South Wales, Queensland and the ACT.
He has sat through two weeks of disturbing evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which is examining abuse at four boys’ homes in NSW and Queensland.
Former residents of the homes say they were raped by Salvation Army officers and “rented out” for sex between the 1950s and the 1970s.
Commissioner Condon says as the leader of the Salvation Army’s Eastern Territory, he accepts responsibility.
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