AUSTRALIA
The Australian
BY TIM DORNIN AAP OCTOBER 09, 2015
THE Salvation Army has pledged to review all compensation payments made to victims of sexual and physical abuse after apologising for the treatment of children taken into its care across three states.
FLOYD Tidd says the abuse that continued over many years constitutes the “darkest chapter” in the history of the Salvation Army and will forever be a source of shame.
He says he has been moved and distressed by stories from survivors detailed at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
“Each of you were blameless, all of you were just children. You had a right to feel safe,” he said during his evidence in Adelaide on Friday.
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