AUSTRALIA
The Guardian (UK)
Australian Associated Press
theguardian.com, Thursday 3 April 2014
A man brutalised in a boys’ home says he was told by the global head of the Salvation Army that abuse only happened in Australia.
Jim Luthy, president of Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN), told a royal commission hearing he wrote in 2010 to Shaw Clifton, then general of the army based in London, suggesting he issue a worldwide apology to abuse victims.
Luthy did so because the pope was apologising for abuse by Catholic clergy at the time and he thought the Salvationists should as well.
“I think it was pretty crook when you have got to ask for your own apology,” said Luthy.
He said Clifton responded with “abuse only happened in Australia, nowhere else”.
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