AUSTRALIA
The Guardian (UK)
Australian Associated Press
theguardian.com, Monday 3 February 2014
A Salvation Army worker who blew the whistle on a manager meting out extreme punishment to boys in a Queensland home was fired, an inquiry has been told.
Retired Salvation Army Major Clifford Randall told the royal commission into child sexual abuse that in 1975, while a house parent at Alkira, a boys’ home at Indooroopilly in Queensland, he saw one boy’s shoulder become dislocated during a beating.
The manager of the home, Captain John McIver, was whipping a 12-year-old boy with a strap, when the boy put his hand back and McIver broke a cufflink, Randall said.
“He went ballistic, McIver grabbed the boy and threw him up against the wall, bruising his face and dislocating his shoulder,” Randall said on Monday.
“I lost it and threw him [Mr McIver] into his chair.”
McIver forced the boy’s arm back into its socket, the commission heard.
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