AUSTRALIA
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ABC
BY THOMAS ORITI AND SARAH DINGLE
March 27, 2014
A victim of child sexual abuse burst into tears at a public hearing as he recalled being raped by a Salvation Army officer at a boys’ home.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse heard the man’s account at its 10th public inquiry in Sydney.
The new inquiry is set to examine how the charity handled complaints against its staff in the Salvation Army’s Eastern Territory from 1993 until now.
The man, known as JF, was nine when heand some of his siblings weresent to the Alkira boys’ home in the Brisbane suburb of Indooroopilly.
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