AUSTRALIA
New South Wales Police Force

Thursday, 03 November 2016

Two former Salvation Army officers have been charged over historic child sex offences allegedly committed in the 1960s and 1970s.

Strike Force Lehmann, comprising officers from the State Crime Command’s Sex Crimes Squad, was established to investigate allegations of sexual abuse by former Salvation Army officers at two boys homes in Bexley and Goulburn.

The allegations were raised at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse.

Following extensive inquiries, Strike Force detectives arrested a 74-year-old man at a property in Waterloo about 7.30am yesterday (Wednesday 2 November 2016).

He was taken to Redfern Police Station where he was charged with 23 counts of indecent assault upon a male, two counts of buggery, and procure indecent act with male.