AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
April 1, 2014
Eoin Blackwell
A survivor of child sexual abuse at the hands of Salvation Army officers says an apology from the organisation means nothing to him, while another has urged Australians to think twice about donating to the charity.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Tuesday heard from two men who survived abuse at different Salvation Army schools.
One man, FE, was raped repeatedly by guards at the Gill Memorial School in Goulburn in the early 1970s.
He said he was offered a $60,000 ex gratia payment by the Salvos in 2006, but was not told how that amount was calculated.
“The way I saw it, it was hush money,” FE said.
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