AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Candice Marcus
A senior Salvation Army officer punched a young boy in the head when the child told him he had been sexually abused, a royal commission in Adelaide has heard.
David Reece, now 62 years old, told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse of the constant physical, emotional and sexual abuse he endured at the Box Hill Boys’ Home in Victoria home in the 1960s.
He said he tried on a few occasions to report the abuse to senior officers and they either punished him, disbelieved him or became violent.
“When I reported the abuse to Captain Swift he punched me in the head,” Mr Reece told the commission.
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