AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Candice Marcus
Harrowing accounts of abuse and cruelty at children’s homes run by the Salvation Army have been heard as royal commission hearings in Adelaide go into a third day.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse today heard stories of sexual violence committed against children at Box Hill and Bayswater boys’ homes in Melbourne.
Former resident Ross Rogers said he was frequently raped and sexually abused by senior Salvation Army officer Willem Willemsen in the 1950s.
He described being beaten and said on one occasion when he tried to resist the sexual abuse, Willemsen grabbed a nearby plank of wood and hit him across the face, breaking his nose.
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