AUSTRALIA
Telegraph
Royal Commission witnesses claim they were sexually and physically abused by Salvos captains – and beaten by the police if they fled
NSW 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 that he was 12 when he was sexually abused at the Gill Memorial Home in Goulburn, NSW, by Captain Russell Walker.
Mr Stiles said he would be woken up at 3am and be taken to the bathroom by Mr 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.
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