AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Candice Marcus
Victims of sexual abuse at Salvation Army-run children’s homes are angry that an internal review of past compensation settlements will only focus on “outliers” and all other claims would only be reopened as part of a national redress scheme.
Commissioner Floyd Tidd, the Salvation Army’s southern territory commander, has been recalled to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse to clarify the review process.
The commission is examining four Salvation Army-run children’s homes in Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria.
Commissioner Tidd has given evidence that 418 past compensation settlements with survivors of sexual and physical abuse at Salvation Army-run children’s homes will be reviewed.
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