AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times
March 27, 2014
Tony Moore
brisbanetimes.com.au senior reporter
A leader of the Salvation Army has apologised for breaching the ‘‘trust’’ of the community as he launched the Salvation Army’s Red Shield Appeal for 2014 in Brisbane.
Commissioner James Condon told more than 1000 people that he felt “shocked, ashamed and aggrieved” by what he heard at the February hearings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses into Child Sexual Abuse.
The commission has been told boys were abused – both sexually and physically – while in the Salvation Army’s care.
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