AUSTRALIA
ABC News

By Candice Marcus

A Salvation Army commander has apologised to victims of sexual, physical and emotional abuse while in the care of the organisation last century.

Commissioner Floyd Tidd, Southern Territory Commander, was called to give evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse held in Adelaide this week.

The commission is examining occurrences of violent child sex abuse at Salvation Army-run children’s homes in South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia.

Commissioner Tidd began by reading an apology to the survivors, their families and the Australian community.

“Since coming to Australia a little over two years ago, a large part of my time I’ve spent trying to understand how so many children came to be abused in our homes over so many years, and then working to ensure that no child will ever be abused again in the Salvation Army’s care,” he…