AUSTRALIA
Daily Telegraph
Salvation Army Major put cigarettes out on boy, 7, and threw him in a pool with bricks tied to his legs
JANET FIFE-YEOMANS THE DAILY TELEGRAPH APRIL 07, 2014
A SALVATION Army major put out cigarette butts between the toes of a seven-year-old boy, the child sex abuse royal commission has been told.
It happened at the organisation’s Indooroopilly Boys’ Home in Queensland where Major Victor Bennett also woke the boy up in the middle of the night, stripped him naked, tied bricks to his legs and threw in him the swimming pool.
Major Bennett has since died but it is the latest shocking evidence of violence in Salvation Army homes to be revealed in the royal commission sitting in Sydney.
When the man, who was also raped by Bennett in the home in 1966 as a seven-year-old, finally told the Salvation Army what had happened, his file was marked “not proved” next to the claims of the cigarettes and the swimming pool.
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