AUSTRALIA
Perth Now
A FORMER resident of a Salvation Army children’s home in Perth was beaten, humiliated and sexually abused, a royal commission has heard.
The 57-year-old cannot be identified, but has detailed her treatment at the Hollywood Children’s Village in Nedlands from 1969 to 1972.
She said she had trouble with bed-wetting as a child and as punishment a staff member would rub her face in the wet sheets.
“I was also forced to wear wet underpants on my head with the crotch part over my nose,” she told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Wednesday.
“All the bed-wetters were made to stand in the lounge room so everyone could see us.”
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