AUSTRALIA
Sky News
The Salvation Army has confessed that ‘evil people’ perpertrated sex abuse in its homes because of poor regulation and appalling ignorance of the psychological needs of children.
Major Peter Farthing told a hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Friday that homes in the 1960s and ’70s would have lacked written policies and were often run by poorly trained managers.
Over two weeks the commission has heard of horrendous physical and sexual abuse in four homes – the Endeavour Training Farm at Riverview and the Alkira Home for Boys at Indooroopilly, both in Queensland; and in NSW the Bexley home in south Sydney and Gill Memorial Home, Goulburn.
Mr Farthing who is co-ordinating the Salvation Army’s response to the royal commission also said ‘some perpetrators were plain evil people … and the worst offenders were the worst liars’, who were believed over children, employees or lesser ranking officers.
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