AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
April 14, 2014
Annette Blackwell
A woman whose Salvation Army officer husband went to police to turn himself in for sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl says she cannot recall details of the event and denies trying to intimidate an officer.
Kerry Haggar, a lieutenant colonel in the Salvation Army whose husband Colin has been subject of an inquiry into the army’s handling of abuse complaints said on Monday she could only recall that her husband had gone to police to report “he had inappropriately touched a child”.
The royal commission into child sex abuse hearing started two weeks ago and has heard that Colin Haggar admitted abusing the girl in a central western NSW town in 1989.
James Condon, who is now the man in charge of the army’s eastern region, gave evidence last week that he accompanied Mr Haggar when he went to police in 1990 to report the offence.
Mr Condon, who was a captain at the time, could also not recall details but said police had told Mr Haggar no action could be taken without the victim making a complaint.
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