AUSTRALIA
Daily Mail
By AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Salvation Army promoted officers accused of child sexual abuse in four boys’ homes in NSW and Queensland and moved them on to run other homes.
In a report handed down on Tuesday, the child sex abuse royal commission said there were systemic failures in the army’s conduct when it ran Indooroopilly and Riverview in Queensland and Bexley and Gill in NSW between 1956 and the early 80s.
Among failures were not reporting up the line in the army, failing to tell police and not keeping records on officers against whom serious allegations were made.
The commission’s 101-page report chronicles sexual and physical brutalities at the homes which closed between 1977 and 1983.
“In all four homes public, regular and excessive physical punishment occurred … Punishment was brutal at times, the commission said.
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