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at Alkira at least 3 afternoons als dde jongens thuis komen

bron

Britse koningin voor overleg naar Paus en dan eten ze samen scheepsbeschuit en smachten naar 't ei van Columbus en koppies thee op bed

....

De jeugdmisdaad groeit onrustbarend
Al wordt er nog zo streng gestraft
In Engeland het allermeeste
Sinds lijfstraf daar is afgeschaft
De allerhoogste Britse Rechter
Heeft voor de jeugdlijfstraf gepleit
En dat heeft de politierechters
Echt deugd gedaan en zéér verblijd
Met de karwats is het te pijnlijk
Dat  instrument is dus taboe
Maar uiterst heilzaam en doeltreffend
Zijn een Spaans rietje en een roe
't Zal niet alleen behoorlijk pijn doen
't Is voor iets anders óók bedoeld
En dat is, dat de delinquent zich
Echt wat je noemt vernederd voelt.
Krijgt hij soms wéér eens slechte plannen,
Wellicht herinnert hij zich dat
En daardoor komt hijj tot bezinning
en blijft hij op het rechte pad.
En als hij groot, beroemd en dood is
Zal in zijn In Memoriam staan:
Met wat hij op zijn achterdeel reeds leerde
heeft hij vóórdeel steeds gedaan

...

1969
Clinge Dorenbos

Met de groeten aan 

Wim Deetman en zijn topwetenschapper Bank

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kusje
Sinterklaas Incognito


en ook van
Georgy Pell. 

sextremely destructive consequences for the child

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Witness asked why no-one intervened over abuse at Salvation Army boys home

ABC news

tadaaa minim. 1 x 14 d Alkira
v/a excessief geweld: hield 't voor mezelf....

the Australian.
some Salvation Army institutions were "fiefdoms unto themselves", but there was a reluctance within the government to close problem, church-run schools.

Jan Doyle said while there were concerns within the department about the physical state of the Riverview Training farm, it was unlikely to have been aware of a slew of abuse complaints against it.

But had they been aware, there would have been resistance on a political level to remove their licences to care for children.

"We were a government department and we were controlled by a minister, and ministers are very much aware of who they will upset," Ms Doyle said.

"The churches at the time, in the early 1970s, were very powerful - not just the Salvation Army, the Anglicans, the Catholics, the Baptists, and I don't think any politician wished to read about themselves on the front page of the daily paper."

Cognac en de Limburgse mestvaalt; gier van de rijken en bier van de armen

w.v.

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n das waarom je in een koepeltent niet mag roken
en da's heeeel verstandig

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há sempre uma candeia
dentro da própria desgraça
há sempre alguém que semeia
canções no vento que passa

Mesmo na noite mais triste
em tempo de sevidão
há sempre alguém que resiste
há sempre alguém que diz não

Jurei ter por comhanheira 

'Let no child walk this path again' Lewis Blayse's final interview

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salvation Army disloyalists

Dear all

Dear all, 

The 7:30 Report tonight on ABC television will include an interview with Dad that he conducted the day before he died. 

Thank you to Elise Worthington and Conor Duffy and their team for giving Dad a chance to speak, and to Conor Duffy for arranging for me to speak today as well. 

Thank you to Quentin McDermott for instigating it.

Thank you to Peter McCutcheon for interviewing me today for tonight's program. I cannot thank you enough for giving me the opportunity to say something of what Dad would be hoping for for the future. 

If I have forgotten to mention anyone associated with tonight's program, my apologies, and thank you to you too.

Kind regards,

Aletha

Als een advocaat zegt nog 5 minuten nodig te hebben
is het dan je maag, je ggz-team of de klok die beslist?
De noodzaak van een handtekening onder het verbod de naam van een manneke te noemen?

Of Lewis Blayse?

Nipple keet en false kneels Nun calls Church patriarchal, bishops dismissive of child sex abuse claims

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The Catholic Church was ''patriarchal'', regarded women as useful for ''cooking the Sunday lunch roast'' but not much else and even today left women feeling ''fairly well overlooked'', a senior nun has told the NSW Special Commission of Inquiry.

A former congregation leader of the Sisters of St Joseph in Lochinvar, in the Hunter Valley, Sister Lauretta Baker, said she was not a feminist because the word was divisive, but she laid bare how a nun felt about the church and its global child sex abuse crisis.

''I think it's true to say the Catholic Church is as good as it is today because of its religious women, not because of its religious men,'' she told the inquiry in evidence made public on Friday. ''We have endured much, put up with much.''
In the 1980s, when child sex allegations emerged in the US, the church had ''little regard for women in general, whom they saw as doing the flowers in the church, washing the altar linen, etc, etc'', she said.

Asked by counsel assisting the inquiry Warwick Hunt if that included ''cooking the Sunday lunch roast for priests'', Sister Baker replied: ''Yes, and never being part of any decision making, even any kind of consultation, collaboration. I'm sure they didn't know the meaning of the word, really, in those days, the 1980s.

''You know, the Catholic Church is basically patriarchal in its organisation and its systems. If you know anything about the Catholic Church and its system, then you know that women are still today fairly well overlooked.''

The NSW Special Commission of Inquiry, headed by Margaret Cunneen, SC, is investigating the Catholic Church and police handling of child sex allegations about the late priests Denis McAlinden and James Fletcher. Its final report is due later this month.
Sister Baker gave evidence in private at Wallsend on April 19. She finished her five-year term as congregational leader of the Lochinvar Josephites last month.
Asked by Mr Hunt if she had any views about systemic obstacles in the past facing nuns or their superiors who had knowledge or suspicions about clerics ''misbehaving with children'', she replied: ''Yes, I do. Have you got all day?

''The major superiors that I knew in the 1980s would have to have been extremely courageous women to have approached the bishop. Nobody believed that a priest in such a position of trust would act like that, act in a way that we've seen some of them did.

''They [bishops] wouldn't have believed it, to start with. My conjecture is that they [nuns] would have been patted on the head and ignored.''

Sister Baker said nuns were ''even further behind the eight ball'' than other women in the church because their vows of chastity, obedience and poverty meant ''many clerics regarded religious women as odd''.
She told the inquiry about a recently completed two-year papal investigation of nuns in the US. It was ordered because of their social justice work with the very poor and disadvantaged. Josephite nuns in Australia did similar social justice work with the very poor and the homeless, she said.

''We work in areas that at times make us work in opposition to the doctrine of the church, and it's a question of doctrine or people,'' she said. ''Women choose people over doctrine. Happily so.''

In the 1990s nuns had become ''more enlightened and outspoken, and I think we have claimed more and more of our identity''.

tailcatering

Salvation Army suspends officer John McIver over child sexual abuse royal commission

31 Jan 2014

ABC

Thomas Oriti

The Salvation Army has suspended an officer being investigated by the royal commission into child sexual abuse.

John McIver is one of five men who are the focus of the inquiry's hearings into the sexual and physical abuse of children at four boys' homes run by the Christian church.

But when the hearing began this week it emerged that he was the only alleged perpetrator who was still a current Salvation Army member.

His suspension came on the same day as the inquiry heard boys at a Salvation Army home in Sydney were "rented out" to strangers who sexually abused them.

Yesterday afternoon the Salvation Army issued a statement.
"In light of evidence tendered to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the Salvation Army has suspended retired Salvation Army officer John McIver pending further investigations in regards to the matters raised," the statement said.

On Tuesday the Salvation Army Commissioner, James Condon, indicated Captain McIver's future was being considered.

"We're looking at that right at this moment, and we were looking at that before the hearing today," he said.
The homes being examined are the Bexley Boys Home in Sydney's south, the Gill Memorial Home at Goulburn in southern New South Wales, the Alkira Salvation Army Home for Boys at Indooroopilly in Brisbane and the Riverview Training Farm at Riverview in Queensland.

Major McIver worked at the Bexley home from 1968 until he moved to become manager of the Alkira home in 1974.
He served as the manager at Indooroopilly until 1976.

The Salvation Army promoted him from captain to major in 1980 and he subsequently retired.

Boys allegedly beaten and raped by suspended officer

Major McIver has been described in the royal commission as "brutal".

He is accused of sexually assaulting a young boy known as GA at Bexley and then threatening to "beat the life" out of him if he told anyone.

The Salvation Army later paid GA $40,000 in compensation.

Major McIver is also accused of throwing a boy known as FT onto a concrete walkway at Bexley and raping a boy identified in the commission as EK at Indooroopilly.

On other occasions at Indooroopilly he allegedly burnt a boy on the leg with a cigarette and whipped a boy's genitals with a strap.

Counsel assisting the commission Simeon Beckett told the inquiry on Tuesday that two staff at the Alkira home tried to help a boy who had been assaulted by the then captain.

"They attempted to take a boy to hospital after Captain McIver had dislocated his shoulder," Mr Beckett said.
"Captain McIver refused use of the car and forced the arm of the boy back into its socket."

The Queensland Department of Children's Services was notified as early as October 1974 of Major McIver's actions, but concluded "the punishment administered was excessive".
Major McIver has not attended the commission's hearings but the inquiry has been told he refutes the allegations of sexual abuse.

The Salvation Army says the four other men being investigated by the commission are not current members of the church.

Victor Bennett died in 1986 and Lawrence Wilson resigned from the Salvation Army in 1982 and died in 2008.

Russell Walker was dismissed in 1974 after being convicted of indecent assault, while Donald Schultz was dismissed in 2005 and is now in a nursing home with dementia.
 

ABC Four Corners: Institutional childhood abuse of orphans haunts generations

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"Special thanks are also due to prominent ABC radio journalist, Emily Bourke, for her efforts in getting the ABC to agree to re-run the program. Emily does the AM, PM, Radio National and World Today programs, and has helped the author cope with the disappointment of not being given permission by chief commissioner, Peter McClellan, to appear before the commission.

Readers are strongly urged to watch the program, and to tell as many other people as possible about it.
It would also be good if someone could record so that it can be posted on-line, if the ABC agrees, with all due acknowledgement, or be available for viewing by those unable to watch it live on Saturday night.

[First person comment: Unlimited thanks to Quentin, Emily and Morag.]
...

TOMORROW: What the officials did and didn’t do

That’s all I can say

Lewis Blayse (né Lewin Blazevich) "
30-1-2014

Malle Jans schietgebedje op de wallen

Moge er ooit ogen uit kassen rollen bij deen of dandere slimmerik met toegang tot de archieven bij het vinden van een bonnetje voor Picasso sanseveria's en reeruggen met koffie en slagroom! 

where angels don't dare to go

Comments welcome

 by Lewis Blayse

09.47 uur  1-2-2014

Hello again.

I have enabled comments on Dad's site so that anyone who would like to say anything or discuss anything that he has written may do so.

Aletha

THE HOMIES ABC transcriptie

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

FOUR CORNERS

Investigative TV journalism at its best

The Homies

Four Corners explores how the childhood experience of "the homies" continues to intensely affect their lives.

QUENTIN McDERMOTT, REPORTER: Scattered around Australia are crumbling structures that once housed the children society didn't want. These were children's homes, run by the most respectable bodies in the land - States, charities, churches, the Salvation Army. But for many older Australians, the memories are intensely painful.

TRISH PASCOE: The bitter, lonely years.

QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Why do you call it that?

TRISH PASCOE: Because they were bitter and lonely. That's the only thing I can use to describe it.

QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Some homes were well-run. In others, abuse turned children into angry, sometimes criminal, adults.

MAN IN SHADOW: To be truthful, I cannot look at a 13- or 14-year-old and not think, "I wouldn't mind that".

BEVERLEY FITZGERALD, PRESIDENT, QLD CHILDREN SERVICES TRIBUNAL: Its repercussions are enormous and they ripple out to every facet of a person's life, and we have to start looking at that.

JOHN DALZIEL, THE SALVATION ARMY: That trust has been betrayed and to the Australian public now, I apologise.

QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Tonight on Four Corners, the secret history of the extraordinary cruelty inflicted on children in care.

NEWSREEL: The Salvation Army is a strong supporter of the Scouting movement as a means of building healthy bodies and minds - ideals that are carried through to their schools for children from broken homes. For these youngsters, school is home.

QUENTIN McDERMOTT: In the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, tens of thousands of boys and girls from broken homes were dispatched to institutions around Australia.

(PHOTOGRAPH LABELLED 'INDOOROOPILLY')

QUENTIN McDERMOTT: The damage some homes caused is still there in the lives of middle-aged Australians like Lewis Blayse.

LEWIS BLAYSE: It was out in the middle of nowhere, which is where most of these places were - out in the middle of nowhere.

QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Lewis Blayse went into care in 1950 when he was five months old. His parents simply couldn't cope.

LEWIS BLAYSE: My mother was about fifth-generation Australian, uh...English, Welsh. Year 6 education, uh...schizophrenia. My father came out as a refugee during World War II from Yugoslavia. The whole village was shot, eventually. Uh...he became a canecutter. He had two years education.

QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Lewis Blayse's fate was typical of an age when large numbers of children were institutionalised through no fault of their own, with no choice where they went. Placing them in a home run by a church or charity was seen as a safe, inexpensive option.

BEVERLEY FITZGERALD: Children placed in care was usually an economic motivation rather than a child development or child nurturing or child protection, and that the state found often the cheapest way to look after children.

QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Life in the hundreds of institutions around Australia was ordered and impersonal. At the age of nine, Lewis Blayse was sent to Indooroopilly - a Salvation Army home in Queensland where boys were referred to by numbers.

LEWIS BLAYSE: I was number 32. I'm sorry. I'm going to get upset if I hold that for too long. Number 32.

WALLY McLEOD: I was sent to Indooroopilly, supposedly for psychiatric treatment, of which I never got.

BARRY MASLEN: I was deemed a juvenile delinquent, and my single mother at the time couldn't cope with me.

QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Wally McLeod and Barry Maslen share memories of life in care. Their stories of life at Indooroopilly tally with Lewis Blayse's accounts.

WALLY McLEOD: You would get up, you would have breakfast, you would collect a lunch wrapped in rag, with dry mince, and you would be marched to school with an officer in a line of three rows.

LEWIS BLAYSE: The lining up, the...the whistles, the toilets, the lights-out time. You know, it was just military and...and your bunks are sort of like, you know, this far apart. No...not...no personal possessions. Spartan.

QUENTIN McDERMOTT: The chores were as nothing compared with the discipline handed out by the officers in charge.

LEWIS BLAYSE: If you spoke in your own language, you got six cuts on each hand. If you spoke during meals, six cuts on each hand. If you stepped out of line, 'cause you had to line up everywhere, six cuts on each hand.

BARRY MASLEN: I ran away from home with another boy. And...the police caught us at Eumundi and drove us back to the home. On the way back, they asked why we ran away, and we told them and they said they would look into the matter, but I don't think they ever did because nothing changed. When we got back to the home... Um...we were caned 6 times on each hand - 6 times on the knuckles - and 18 times on the backside - bare...bare behind.

QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Sometimes the pain endured was as much psychological as physical. Lewis Blayse was one of the cleverest boys at Indooroopilly, and he helped organise an escape attempt. When the boys were caught, he had to watch while his mates were brutally punished.

LEWIS BLAYSE: Boys had been escaping, which is part of what you do in boys' homes, and when they brought them back, you know, they were sort of stripped naked, beaten with a bloody rubber hose over a vaulting horse, and we all had to stand around and watch. You know, it was, like...ridiculous. It just got worse and worse - you know, beating people...you know.

QUENTIN McDERMOTT: That's completely unacceptable, isn't it?

JOHN DALZIEL: Absolutely. There is no justification for it whatsoever in any circumstances and, even at the time, the Salvation Army did not condone that.

QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Lewis Blayse lives alone in a ramshackle house in the country. His years in children's homes left him with post-traumatic stress disorder. Like so many former state wards, he's a loner. His marriage has broken down, even though his wife Sylvia remains his greatest supporter. On one thing they both agree - the emotional price paid by them all has been high.

SYLVIA BLAYSE: There's been a lot of screaming, a lot of fighting, a lot of throwing glasses on the floor, a lot of breaking furniture. That's as violent as we ever got, really. But there's been so much anger in our family. That's really, I guess, the main effect.

QUENTIN McDERMOTT: Has Lew ever tried to harm himself?

SYLVIA BLAYSE: Yes, he's tried to suicide a number of times.

LEWIS BLAYSE: If anybody is to be compensated, I'd say it was my family, because they, you know... You compensate a breadwinner if he's killed at work or something. If they're psychologically killed...the family should still be compensated.

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Love to all

Lewis Blaysenet  Commentary on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (Australia) and associated matters 



Dear all,


Posted on January 31, 2014


My Dad, Lewis, passed away last night. They think he had a heart attack.

To everyone who has supported his work and encouraged him in his fight against paedophilia, thank you. He was behind in his emails, but intended to respond to all who have sent messages of support.

Please watch ABC 24 tonight and the rerun of “The Homies” on Four Corners at 8pm.

I will post again when I have details about his funeral, for those who would like to attend.

With love,

Aletha

[Postscript: Dad believed that when we die, we become a pure beam of light energy, unrestricted by time or space. He told me that when it was his time, he was looking forward to exploring the universe.]

Salvation Army Hearings Continue (Or: Still Taking Taxpayers’ Money)

SPECIAL NOTE: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation television (ABC 2 / Ch. 24 digital) will be re-screening the “Four Corners” program from 2003, detailing abuses by the Salvation Army at its Children’s Homes – titled “The Homies”. (<--crispina: i="" transcript="">


The program will run at 8 p.m. (daylight Saving time – 7.p.m. Queensland time) on this coming Saturday night – 1st February, 2014. The author and one of the men who gave evidence this week, Wally McLeod, were interviewed in the program by top ABC investigative journalist, Quentin McDermott, along with a few other men and women.

The program was ground-breaking at a time when there was little public awareness of the issues. Now that the royal commission is revisiting four Salvation Army Boys’ Homes, Alkira, Bexley, Gill, and Riverview, it again becomes particularly relevant. People will soon realize just how far ahead of its time this program was.

Special thanks are also due to prominent ABC radio journalist, Emily Bourke, for her efforts in getting the ABC to agree to re-run the program. Emily does the AM, PM, Radio National and World Today programs, and has helped the author cope with the disappointment of not being given permission by chief commissioner, Peter McClellan, to appear before the commission.

Readers are strongly urged to watch the program, and to tell as many other people as possible about it.
It would also be good if someone could record so that it can be posted on-line, if the ABC agrees, with all due acknowledgement, or be available for viewing by those unable to watch it live on Saturday night.
[First person comment: Unlimited thanks to Quentin, Emily and Morag.]

Today’s hearings of the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse have focused on Wilson, McIver, and events at Riverview, Alkira and Bexley Boys’ Homes. It has also heard evidence from police concerning enquiries into the matter.

The most concerning thing to come out of today’s hearings is that boys were rented out (‘pimped’) to other predators by Salvation Army officers from the Boys’ Homes. Witness, ‘FV’, told the enquiry in a statement (he was too upset to read it himself) that he had been sent to three properties where he was raped and abused. The man who organized the trips was Salvation Army officer, Lawrence Wilson.

FV’s statement, read to the commission, stated that: “I had been called to Wilson’s office [and] when I arrived there was a man and a woman in the office with Wilson. Wilson told me that I had to go with the couple. I left Bexley with them and they drove to a house in Punchbowl.”

Over the ensuing hours, the man and the woman indecently assaulted and attempted to rape FV, until he managed to escape to the Bexley home. FV said the couple were in Salvation Army uniforms and the woman “had short blond hair and looked to be in her 30s.”

When he returned and told Captain Wilson what had happened, he was told the couple were ”good people” and was caned approximately 18 times. He was then sent to a poultry farm and the home of two women and was allegedly assaulted on both occasions. FV’s statement said that: “The sexual attacks on myself are the hardest things to deal with, one day you are a boy the next you are a shell walking around. You leave the boy somewhere but one thing for sure is, you can never find him again.”
FV was savagely attacked by Mr Wilson one day for laughing. His statement read that: “One thing I will never forget was the day Wilson dragged me along the hall, caned me and then bashed me like a bulldog tearing apart a rag doll.”

FV said Bexley made him tough but he still has nightmares so intense he cannot get back to sleep, and the experiences damaged him so badly that he had never felt comfortable cuddling his own children.
He said Wilson was arrogant and unforgiving. “He used a variety of canes for hitting us kids and he would do it without hesitation.” FV and his two sisters and brother had ended up in Children’s Homes after their father died and their mother had a breakdown. He said that on the first night at Bexley, his younger brother, aged about 11, was raped.

 
Yet FV, who finished his evidence to applause from the public gallery, said that when he and other boys came forward to talk about their abuse, the Salvation Army brushed them off. “The Salvos could have made it easier if, once we had all started to come forward, they had helped us. Instead they called us liars. But we are not scared of Wilson anymore.”

[First person note: The author was abused by Wilson at Alkira].

The commission heard FV’s case was one of dozens of alleged rapes and indecent assaults against boys at Bexley Salvation Army Boys’ Home that were reported to police years later but never came to court because of the victims’ fading memories and investigators’ reluctance to ”fish for victims”.

Another man told the commission that the boys, who lived at the Salvation Army Bexley Home in Sydney, would sometimes be sexually abused by men who broke into their rooms at night.

His statement read that Wilson: “physically raped me in his office within a few months of being there and it happened several more times. You would be sent out to stay with other people and they would do it to you or there were the prowlers, men who allegedly broke into the place at night and tampered with the boys. Even now I still can’t sleep… Wilson got me out of bed at night times. Sometimes it was strangers who came up the fire escape … old men came in at night. There was no supervision.”

Another Bexley boy,’ ET’, told the enquiry how Wilson arrived at the home claiming to be a nurse. “And often under medical examination captain Wilson would ask me to go and get one of the young boys from the playground so that Wilson could conduct a ‘full medical examination’ on them. I was told which boy to get from the playground.”

“Wilson would ask me to get different boys on different occasions. They were all young; they were never high school boys, they were all primary school boys. Wilson would take the boy into his office, close the door. I could hear the young boy crying or begging for Wilson to stop.” 

When asked how many boys he thought he went and led up to Wilson’s office, ET replied that: “I took many boys. I lost count, I was… every Saturday, I would get them for him because I had to answer the phones and answer the doors for him so that the boys that were going away with their parents could take them. It was the ones that were left behind that Wilson would examine.”

As the ABC’s Emily Bourke reported, victim EP told the inquiry that a ‘bear pit’ mentality prevailed in the boys’ dormitories. A victim impact statement from EP was read by counsel assisting Simeon Beckett.

It read: “You were on the defensive all the time. You were on the lookout all the time. You could never sleep through the whole night. You’d lie there waiting for somebody to come and get you. Even now I still can’t sleep. There, you’d get visited in the night, so you were scared; you couldn’t fall asleep. I’d force myself to stay awake. Wilson got me out of bed at night times. Sometimes it was strangers who came up the fire escape.”

Wilson, described by counsel assisting the commission as “the most serious offender” in Sydney, was eventually charged with 19 offences involving buggery and assault but was tried and acquitted in 1997. NSW police could not find enough evidence in 1998 to charge Mr Wilson with running a pedophile ring.

Wilson died in 2008 the same year the Salvation Army reported allegations against him, related to the time he was at Bexley and in Queensland. However, the worst sex fiend in the Salvation Army was dismissed not for raping young boys – but because he had slept with his fiancé!


The hypocrisy of the Salvation Army has been exposed, because despite leaving a trail of abused young boys at four Salvation Army homes, Wilson was recommended for promotion to major in 1982. It was, however, denied.

The only time he was sacked from the Salvation Army was in 1961, after already having raped young boys at Riverview and Indooroopilly (Alkira). He then became a child welfare officer with the NSW Child Welfare Department where he was severely reprimanded for violence towards the young people as well as caught out lying about having ‘medical experience’. He left in 1965.

He then got a job back when the Salvation Army took him back into their ranks in 1966. Wilson was later appointed manager at The Gill Memorial Boys’ Home and then at the Bexley Boys’ Home.
Wilson was eventually charged with 19 sex offences in 1997, after a police task force was set up in the wake of the Wood Royal Commission to investigate the cover-up of pedophiles, but he was acquitted. Earlier, in 1994, Wilson had fronted court charged with buggery, common assault and other offences but he was later cleared.

The Salvation Army had refused to cover Wilson’s legal costs and had: “expressed surprise at his acquittal.” Wilson went on to serve the Army at Mackay and Cairns. He went to his grave without ever having been convicted over the sadistic sexual and physical violence he subjected at least 15 victims to during his time at boys’ homes in NSW and Queensland.

A married couple who were dismissed from the army after complaining about Wilson’s “sick parades” – a process where he had the boys line up to be privately examined for “medical” purposes, will give evidence before the commission when the hearing resumes on Friday.

The Salvation Army had long known of the problems with Wilson. As far back as 1977, it was noted by a Salvation Army headquarters official that: “I feel we are dealing with a very sick man, namely Captain Laurie Wilson.”

Another alleged Salvation Army abuser, John McIver, at the commencement of the hearings, was still an officer in the organization. On Tuesday the Salvation Army head, James Condom, indicated McIver’s future was being considered. However, today the Salvation Army suspended McIver.

A Salvation Army press release today read: “In light of evidence tendered to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, the Salvation Army has suspended retired Salvation Army officer John McIver pending further investigations in regards to the matters raised.” But not sacked.

Major McIver has been described in the royal commission as “brutal”.

He is accused of sexually assaulting a young boy known as GA at Bexley, fondled the boy’s genitals, and then threatening to “beat the life” out of him if he told anyone. The Salvation Army later paid GA $40,000 in compensation.

Major McIver is also accused of throwing a boy known as FT onto a concrete walkway at the Bexley Boys’ Home and raping a boy identified as EK at the Indooroopilly Boys’ Home (Alkira).On other occasions at Indooroopilly he allegedly burnt a boy on the leg with a cigarette (Salvos aren’t supposed to smoke) and whipped a boy’s genitals with a strap.

The enquiry was told that two staff at the Alkira home tried to help a boy who had been assaulted by McIver. When they attempted to take a boy to hospital after McIver had dislocated his shoulder, he refused them the use of the car and forced the arm of the boy back into its socket.

The Queensland Department of Children’s Services was notified as early as October 1974 of McIver’s actions, but only concluded that: “the punishment administered was excessive.” McIver has not attended the commission’s hearings, and to date has not been called for examination.

In the light of the present findings alone, Prime Minister Tony Abbott should review the suitability of the Salvation Army to receive taxpayer funding for its “at risk” and homeless youth programs. (The Salvation Army receives 47% of its money from the government.)

The present contracts should be given to other organizations, at least until the Royal Commission releases its final report.

[Postscript: While the author was refused permission by the chief commissioner, Peter McClellan, to give evidence, or present a submission, to the enquiry, this blog will continue to supplement evidence given to the enquiry, especially on Alkira. As the saying goes – “There is more than one way to skin a cat!”]

Read more here:

• http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/world-news/94862/australian-panel-told-of-sexual-abuse-of-boys-at-salvation-army-homes.html
• http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-30/salvation-army-suspends-officer-over-sexual-abuse-inquiry/5228914
• http://sg.news.yahoo.com/video/australia-investigates-whether-paedophiles-operated-104959650.html
• http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/salvation-army-allegations-of-paedophilia-but-police-did-not-act-20140130-31ppz.html#ixzz2rsyN8ReR
• http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/10606458/Salvation-Army-rented-out-boys-at-Sydney-childrens-home-in-Sydney-to-paedophiles.html
• http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/salvo-accused-acquitted-inquiry-hears/story-e6frg6n6-1226814286252
• http://www.news.com.au/national/worst-rapist-at-salvos-was-eventually-sacked-for-sleeping-with-his-fiance/story-e6frfkp9-1226814208650
• http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-01-30/claims-a-paedophile-ring-operated-out-of-salvos/5229076?section=nsw
• http://www.news.com.au/national/worst-rapist-at-salvos-was-eventually-sacked-for-sleeping-with-his-fiance/story-e6frfkp9-1226814208650
• http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/30/boys-rented-police-failed-investigation
• http://news.brisbanetimes.com.au/breaking-news-national/salvo-dismissed-amid-more-abuse-evidence-20140130-31ob2.html
• http://www.thesatellite.com.au/news/commission-hears-cruel-abuser-who-moved-home-home/2155519/

TOMORROW: What the officials did and didn’t do

That’s all I can say

Lewis Blayse (né Lewin Blazevich)