AUSTRALIA
The Australian
DAN BOX THE AUSTRALIAN FEBRUARY 03, 2014
BOYS living in a Salvation Army-run children’s home in Sydney’s south would be used by staff to procure younger boys for sex in return for lollies, the royal commission has heard.
A former resident of the Bexley home, Kevin Marshall, told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that boys were also abused by army members at their homes after church.
Senior Salvation Army officers “ruled by fear”, Mr Marshall said, describing how he was both physically and sexually abused during the 1960s and 1970s.
Other employees used the home’s older boys to “take the younger boys into the rooms for them in exchange for lollies and special affection from these employees.”
“These boys would either become – I won’t say willing partners but they’d become partners,” Mr Marshall said.
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