AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Thomas Oriti
A former child welfare officer has launched a stinging attack on state and federal governments, telling a public inquiry they have historically failed to properly provide for children in need.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is currently examining four boys homes operated by the Salvation Army in New South Wales and Queensland.
Former residents have cried as they recalled years of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of Salvation Army officers and older boys in the 1960s and 1970s.
Janice Doyle was a supervisor at the Queensland Department of Children’s Services in 1975 and observed conditions in Salvation Army homes at Riverview and Indooroopilly.
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