AUSTRALIA
Daily Telegraph
JANET FIFE-YEOMANS THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MARCH 27, 2014
HE had a history of sexually assaulting little girls but Colin Haggar was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Salvation Army, the child sex abuse royal commission has been told today.
The Salvos knew as long ago as 1989 what Mr Haggar had done and dismissed him from their ranks but readmitted him in 1993.
He got to know the first girl he sexually assaulted because her mum worked at the local Salvation Army’s op-shop in a central western NSW town. The girl told her parents what he had done and Mr Haggar met with them.
They were shocked when he told them: “It wasn’t that serious. I only fingered her.”
He has admitted his abuse to the Salvation Army and at one stage even went to the police, accompanied by another Salvation Army officer, Commander James Condon, the current Territorial head.
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