AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Australian Associated Press
Sunday 11 October 2015
A culture of physical abuse at a Salvation Army boys’ home in Adelaide was a significant barrier to children reporting allegations of sexual abuse, a royal commission has heard.
A senior Salvation Army official, Floyd Tidd, said he could not understand why such a culture was allowed to continue at Eden Park in the Adelaide Hills.
“I can’t account for why it was allowed to flourish,” Tidd told the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse in Adelaide on Monday. “I can’t comprehend why it was allowed to continue to happen.”
Tidd agreed that physical abuse was so frequent and conducted so openly at Eden Park that it made children reluctant to come forward with allegations of sexual abuse. He agreed that it served to intimidate boys.
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