AUSTRALIA
Sky News
The Salvation Army has been urged to change its attitude and better recognise the horrific abuse suffered by children taken into its homes.
In a statement read to a royal commission in Adelaide, David Wright, who died recently, said the Salvos needed to acknowledge what happened to the ‘beautiful children’ who went into their homes.
‘They seem unprepared to turn their minds towards what happened, to what their employees were capable of,’ Mr Wright said in his statement read on Thursday.
Mr Wright spent two years at Box Hill Boy’s Home in Melbourne in the 1950s, arriving there when he was just nine years old.
His statement to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse detailed the emotional, physical and sexual abuse he suffered over that time.
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