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Daily Telegraph
Salvation Army’s Major Peter Farthing tells royal commission child abusers not same as paedophiles
JANET FIFE-YEOMANS THE DAILY TELEGRAPH APRIL 15, 2014
THE Salvation Army supported a self-confessed child molester to get a working with children check, it admitted today in the child sex abuse royal commission.
It’s former personnel chief, Major Peter Farthing, said that it was not what it seemed and accused the lawyer who asked the question of providing the latest media headlines.
He said that although one of its officers Colin Haggar got a working with children check, he did not actually ever work with children after he had admitted sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl in 1989.
He was being questioned by Karen McGlinchley who was appearing for a number of witnesses including Major Michelle White, who finally blew the whistle on Mr Haggar last year and reported him to the NSW Ombudsman.
“You may have just provided today’s headlines against the Salvation Army,” he said.
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