AUSTRALIA
Sky News
The Salvation Army has told a royal commission that child sexual abuse in its homes was not widespread, considering the sheer number of children it has cared for.
Counsel for the Salvation Army Kate Eastman made a submission to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse on Monday following public hearings held earlier this year.
In those hearings, survivors told of horrific physical and sexual abuse suffered at the hands of Salvation Army workers in children’s homes.
On Monday Ms Eastman said the church ‘acknowledges that this is the greatest failure in its history in Australia’.
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