AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Thomas Oriti
Updated Wed 5 Feb 2014
An inquiry into physical and sexual abuse at a Salvation Army boys home in Queensland has been told child welfare officers were aware of the concerns, but the home continued to operate.
A former social worker Roy Short has been asked why more was not done to address reports of severe abuse at the boys home.
Salvation Army officers are accused of beating and raping boys at the Alkira boys home in the Brisbane suburb of Indooroopilly in the 1970s.
Lawyers at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse have been attempting to gather further information in light of revelations that boys were also being flown to Sydney as part of a prostitution network.
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