AUSTRALIA
Sky News
A former NSW detective says he formed the view a Salvation Army officer was not truthful when he said he only committed one offence against an eight-year-old girl.
John Greville has been contracted by the Salvation Army’s Professional Standards Office to investigate historical allegations of abuse.
On Monday Mr Greville, who has worked with the Wood Royal Commission and the NSW Ombudsman on child protection, said he was asked in January to look into the case of Colin Haggar, a Salvation Army lieutenant colonel who was director of a Sydney crisis shelter for women and children.
The commission has heard Haggar was dismissed from the Salvation Army in 1990 after he confessed to the sexual assault of an eight-year-old girl in a central western town in NSW. In 1993 he was re-admitted to the army and promoted.
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