AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
The Salvation Army’s response to alleged child sex abuse at a number of its children’s homes in Queensland and NSW will be examined in 2014.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse says the probe into the religious organisation would start on January 28.
It says the public hearing will investigate the Salvos’ response to allegations of child abuse in Queensland at the Alkira Home for Boys at Indooroopilly, and the Riverview Training Farm at Riverview.
The hearing will also look at its responses to claims of abuse in NSW at Bexley Boys Home, in Bexley, and Gill Memorial Home, at Goulburn.
In a statement, the commission said the hearing would examine the Salvation Army’s processes in investigating, disciplining, removing and transferring anyone “accused of, or found to have engaged in, child sexual abuse in these homes”.
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