AUSTRALIA
9 News
One of the Salvation Army’s top leaders in Australia waited nine months before telling authorities about a known sex abuser, who was also his friend, an inquiry has been told.
Commissioner James Condon delayed reporting Colin Haggar, who was running an army crisis shelter for women and children in 2013, a witness told a royal commission hearing in Sydney.
The commission heard last week that Mr Haggar confessed in 1989 to the mother of an eight-year-old girl that he had sexually assaulted her.
He was dismissed by the army, but re-admitted in 1993 and promoted.
On Friday, the hearing was told that other army officers were concerned about Mr Haggar’s continued contact with children and in early 2013 raised the matter with Mr Condon, commander of the army’s eastern territory of NSW, Queensland and the ACT.
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