AUSTRALIA
Sky News
A man who had cigarette butts put out between his toes when he was a child in the care of The Salvation Army was given $10,000 compensation, an inquiry into child abuse has heard.
The army had a system by which it measured what it offered abuse victims who came forward, the royal commission hearing in Sydney was told.
Daphne Cox, a major who met with abuse victims and reported back to the army’s Personal Injuries Complaints Committee (PICC), said she always believed victims.
‘We accepted what we were told. The fact that it hadn’t been proven didn’t indicate how much we offered,’ she said on Monday.
A hearing held in February heard that EF, who was seven when he was placed in the Indooroopilly Boy’s Home in Queensland in 1966, was violently punished and raped by Major Victor Bennett, who was the home’s manager.
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