AUSTRALIA
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The Salvation Army lied about their mistakes to two women raped by a paedophile royal commission told
THE Salvation Army was lying about their mistakes up to five years ago to two women raped and sexually abused by a paedophile at a Sunday school, the child sex abuse royal commission has been told.
The evidence emerged as the Salvos eastern territorial commander, James Condon, clashed with counsel assisting the commission in a heated exchange.
The women had wanted to know why nothing was done when they first reported John Lane, who taught at the Fortitude Valley corps in Brisbane, in 1992 to Colonel Stan Everitt, then the Salvos commander for that region.
The women, one of whom was only four when she was abused by Lane, went to police in 1996 and Lane was convicted and jailed. He has since died.
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