AUSTRALIA
Goulburn Post
By LOUISE THROWER Feb. 5, 2014
A FORMER resident of the Gill Memorial Boys Home has alleged that it was not only Salvation Army officers that sexually abused residents.
Using the pseudonym, GH, a 52-year-old Canberra man told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that he was sexually assaulted by a boy as a seven or eight-yearold at the Home.
It allegedly happened in the locker room as both were getting changed after band practise.
“The older boy (who was tall and skinny and three or four years older than me) cornered me…in between two lockers where there was plenty of privacy,” GH said.
“All of a sudden he started hugging me and said: ‘I am not going to hurt you, just going to have cuddles.’”
“At first I did not think there was anything wrong with the hugs, but all of a sudden I did not know what was going on and I knew that what he was doing was not normal.
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