AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Candice Marcus
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has wrapped up in Adelaide after hearing harrowing accounts of abuse and cruelty at Salvation Army run children’s homes.
One of the men at the centre of the Salvation Army’s response is territorial commander Floyd Tidd, who sat through the seven-day hearing.
He spoke to reporter Candice Marcus on the final day of the hearing.
Q. Commissioner Tidd thanks for your time. You’ve delivered a comprehensive apology at the royal commission to the survivors, what is the Salvation Army’s message to the survivors?
The message to survivors is one of an unconditional apology, as I’ve listened again this week to the evidence and testimony given by survivors I’ve been deeply moved and deeply distressed.
These were children, they were all blameless and they suffered under the care of the Salvation Army and so I offer to each and every one of them, personally and also as the leader of the Salvation Army, an unreserved apology.
They should not have experienced that which was their reality.
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