AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Candice Marcus
Some Salvation Army officers may have perceived children in institutional homes as “evil” and believed it was their duty to save them from their “vicious and criminal tendencies”, a royal commission has heard.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is examining four children’s homes in Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria run by the Salvation Army.
The organisation’s territorial commander of the Australian southern territory, Commissioner Floyd Tidd, is giving evidence for a second day.
On Friday, he delivered an apology to former residents of the home who were physically, sexually and emotionally abused at the homes.
One of the presiding royal commissioners, Robert Fitzgerald, asked Commissioner Tidd about the Salvation Army’s references to evil in historic documents.
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