AUSTRALIA
Sky News

A senior Salvation Army official will appear before a royal commission after three days of evidence detailing the physical and sexual abuse suffered by boys at four homes run by the organisation in three states.

Commissioner Floyd Tidd will front the inquiry in Adelaide on Friday as it examines the Salvos’ response to allegations of abuse between 1940 and 1980.

The commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse is examining the treatment of residents at the Eden Park home in Adelaide, the Box Hill and Bayswater homes in Melbourne and a home at Nedlands in Perth.

It has already heard from a string of witnesses who have told how they were beaten and sexually assaulted, some more than 200 times.

On Thursday, Ross Rogers told how he was threatened with a knife and had his nose broken by an army employee at Box Hill who…