AUSTRALIA
Illawarra Mercury
A man who spent 10 years in a Salvation Army-run boys home wanted the army to pay him $1 million for every year he suffered abuse.
Ralph Doughty, who was in the Gill Memorial Home for Boys in Goulburn, NSW, from 1940, when he was seven, to 1950, said he calculated the amount based on cases overseas.
“I will guarantee that not one judge … would be prepared to accept a million dollars a year to [be sexually abused],” said Mr Doughty, now in his 80s.
Decades of unspeakable acts exposed
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