Child sex abuse royal commission: Victims tell of anger at Salvation Army over sexual and physical abuse at children’s homes

AUSTRALIA
ABC News

By Thomas Oriti

A woman has told an inquiry she was whipped, humiliated and denied basic needs at a Salvation Army children’s home in Queensland.

The examination of the Salvation Army by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has so far concentrated on abuse at the charity’s boys’ homes.

Cherryl Eldridge today became the first woman to tell the commission of abuse at the hands of Salvation Army officers, and also criticised the charity’s treatment of abuse victims.

She was taken to a children’s home at Toowoomba as a six-year-old girl, after being told her parents could not care for her.

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