AUSTRALIA
The Guardian (UK)
Australian Associated Press
theguardian.com, Monday 3 February 2014
The Queensland government stopped sending children to a Salvation Army home after a whistleblower told a welfare officer a boy had been brutally beaten by the manager, a child abuse inquiry has been told.
Retired Salvation Army major Clifford Randall said he saw Captain John McIver, the then manager of Alkira, the home for boys at Indooroopilly, dislocate a boy’s shoulder when the boy resisted being hit with a strap between his legs and was thrown against a brick wall.
Randall resumed his evidence at a royal commission into child sexual abuse hearing in Sydney on Tuesday.
He said he reported the incident to a Jan Doyle, a senior social worker with the Department of Children’s Services.
Randall and his wife, Marina, who is also a major in the Salvation Army, were at the Alkira home as houseparents from 1973 to 1975.
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