AUSTRALIA
Daily Telegraph
SARAH CRAWFORD THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MARCH 29, 2014
A SALVATION army commander asked a woman if she was lying when she revealed years of sexual abuse at the hands of her Sunday school teacher, including being raped at age 10.
Envoy John Lane was sentenced to jail in 1997 for indecently dealing with the woman, known as JG, and abusing another girl, JD, from the age of four at the Fortitude Valley Salvation Army Corps in Brisbane in the 1970s.
The two women went to police after receiving no satisfaction from the head of the Salvation Army in southeast Queensland, Colonel Stan Everitt who asked them: “Are you sure you are not lying?”
The women told the child sex abuse royal commission that Colonel Everitt warned them not to call police or go to the media about Lane.
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