AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Thomas Oriti
A Salvation Army leader says the organisation no longer considers its reputation a priority when dealing with victims of child sexual abuse.
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.
The commissioner heard that whistleblowers were dismissed as liars and boys were bashed if they reported the abuse.
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