AUSTRALIA
The Advertiser
Tory Shepherd, Political Editor, The Advertiser
September 12, 2016
YOUNG boys at the Eden Park Salvation Army home were raped and threatened with violence if they complained, the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has found.
The commission investigated incidents at the home between 1940 and 1980 and in its report released on Monday, found the Salvation Army had failed to protect children in its care.
According to the report, a seven-year-old was raped by older boys and staff, boys were locked up in small windowless spaces, thrashed, sexually abused and then threatened if they spoke up.
Graham Rundle was abused more than 200 times after he was put into the home at age seven.
After his arrival at Eden Park Boys’ Home, he was raped by between seven and nine boys, at least twice a week. He told an employee, William John Keith Ellis, because he was bleeding badly. That’s when Mr Ellis started abusing him.
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