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Child sex abuse royal commission: Salvation Army victim says he was beaten and held in solitary confinement at Riverview Farm
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BY THOMAS ORITI
March 28, 2014
A victim of child sexual abuse says he was beaten and held in solitary confinement during his time at a Queensland boys’ home run by the Salvation Army.
A man known only as JE has told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that when he was a young boy he was forced to protect his sisters and mother who were being abused by his father.
His father sent him away, telling a judge JE was out of control.
JE ended up at the Salvation Army’s Riverview Farm, south-west of Brisbane, when he was 15 years old in the late 1960s.
The man has told the hearing staff at the home in Ipswich “would have been more suitably engaged in a Middle Ages slavery camp”.
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