AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By JOANNE McCARTHY
Dec. 3, 2012
GRAHAM Rundle of Bucketty on the Central Coast is living proof of the need for a royal commission into child sexual abuse in Australia.
As a child in the 1960s he was repeatedly and savagely raped in a South Australian boys’ home run by the Salvation Army, and as a man he fought and beat the Salvation Army in both criminal and civil courts.
The Salvation Army officer who raped him, William Ellis, was jailed for 16 years in 2009, after a judge described the boys’ home as ‘‘a horrific place by any standards’’.
The Salvation Army was forced to pay substantial compensation after a civil case that included a NSW Supreme Court judge, and three NSW Court of Appeal judges, describing evidence from two solicitors representing the church as ‘‘misleading’’, ‘‘disingenuous’’ and ‘‘worrying’’.
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