March 28, 2014
AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Bibby
Court Reporter
A man who was locked in solitary confinement for days without a toilet at a Salvation Army boys home says the organisation’s “redress scheme” effectively continued the abuse, likening the organisation’s uniformed officers to “the Gestapo”.
The man, referred to as JE, told the Royal Commission into child sex abuse on Friday that he was sent to the Riverview boys’ home in Queensland in the late 1960s when he was about 15.
“I remember being locked in a small room in solitary confinement with some boys who were wog bashing me,” JE said, fighting back tears.
“There was no toilet, not even a bucket … If you had to go to the toilet, you had to just go and they threw some newspaper to clean it up.”
“I had to sleep on the same floor.”
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