AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Candice Prosser
The Salvation Army failed to protect children in its institutions between 1940 and 1990 and provided a culture where they felt afraid and powerless to resist ongoing abuse, a royal commission has found.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse today released its response into its Salvation Army Southern Territory (TSAS) case study after hearing harrowing stories of physical and sexual abuse and cruelty.
It heard about a “culture of humiliation” and a “culture of punishment and fear” at Salvation Army-run children’s homes in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia, where children were regularly beaten, degraded and sexually abused.
It examined the Eden Park Boys’ Home at Wistow in SA, the Box Hill and Bayswater Boys’ homes in Victoria, and the Hollywood Children’s Village at Nedlands in WA.
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