AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Australian Associated Press
theguardian.com, Friday 28 March 2014
A man kept in solitary confinement in a boy’s home run by the Salvation Army, in which he was made to sleep where he defecated, has vehemently refused to accept an apology for the abuse he suffered, the Royal Commission into Institutional Abuse was told on Friday.
“If I see one of those uniforms come within a metre of me, you’d better be there … okay, just keep them away from me,” the man said when asked if he would accept an apology from the Salvation Army for the abuse he suffered at the Riverview Training Farm in Queensland in 1971.
“If I see that Gestapo come near me …,” he added.
The man, identified as JE, spent 12 days at Riverview when he was 15 after he and his brother were transferred from the Westbrook Farm Home for Boys, where they were sent after being arrested for joyriding.
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