AUSTRALIA
The Australian
OCTOBER 9, 2015
A royal commission has heard the Victorian government was first made aware of allegations that staff at a Salvation Army boys home had sexually abused children as far back as 1964, and no evidence was ever found to show the matter was properly investigated.
The Health Department’s director of reporting, Alan Hall, yesterday told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that boys taken into the Box Hill and Bayswater homes had been let down, acknowledging the pain and suffering they had felt.
“We should have visited more, we should have been there much more for the times that you wanted someone to talk to,” Mr Hall said.
It was revealed this week that the South Australian government had known of abuse allegations at a Salvation Army-run home in the Adelaide Hills for more than 40 years until it closed in 1982.
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