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The Salvation Army has sacked an officer accused of child abuse just months after publicly rewarding him
JANET DIFE-YEOMANS THE DAILY TELEGRAPH JUNE 23, 2014 1:01PM SHARE
THE Salvation Army has sacked an officer accused at the royal commission of child abuse — six months after giving him a silver award.
Major John McIver was dismissed last week and the allegations against him including sexually assaulting a boy have been referred to the police, the inquiry into institutional responses to child sex abuse has been told today.
The commission had heard shocking allegations from boys at two homes including that Mr McIver had whipped one boy’s genitals, burned another boy on the leg with a cigarette and dislocated another boy’s shoulder.
He had worked at the Bexley Boys Home in Sydney’s south from 1968 until he moved to become manager of the Akira Salvation Army home for boys at Indooroopilly in Brisbane in 1974. He left there in 1976.
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