Salvation Army worker physically and sexually abused boy of 11, inquiry told
Source: Australian Associated Press
Salvation Army worker physically and sexually abused boy of 11, inquiry told
Willem Willemsen, odd-job man and medical officer, threatened Ross Rogers with a knife, broke his nose and covered his mouth to stop him screaming
Australian Associated Press
Thursday 8 October 2015 01.39 EDT
A Salvation Army worker threatened a boy with a knife and broke his nose during four years of almost constant physical and sexual abuse at a boys’ home in Melbourne, an inquiry has heard.
Ross Rogers was just 11 when he was sent to the Box Hill home in 1965 and has detailed the horrific treatment he received at the hands of Willem Willemsen, which started within months of his arrival.
The odd-job man and medical officer took every opportunity he could to abuse the boy, often putting a hand over his mouth to stop him screaming.
“On more than one occasion he held a knife to my throat to threaten me,” Rogers told the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse in Adelaide on Thursday.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/oct/08/salvation-army-worker-physically-and-sexually-abused-boy-of-11-inquiry-told
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