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STORY: Australia's Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse on Thursday (January 30) heard allegations that a paedophile ring operated within the Salvation Army in Sydney.
Children at the Salvation Army's Bexley Boys Home in Sydney were "rented out" at the weekend to strangers who abused them, the commission was told.
Police investigations focused on the activities of Salvation Army Captain Lawrence Wilson, who died in 2008, reportedly arranged, co-ordinated and permitted the abuse. The inquiry was told Wilson would often subject the boys to medical inspections which was allegedly an opportunity to sexually abuse them.
"I felt uncomfortable when he started to fondle my genitals and penis. I jumped back in surprise and Wilson discontinued and said 'that's all,'" one witness, a former resident at the home known only as E.T., told the inquiry.
Former New South Wales Police Detective Inspector, Rick
