Some Salvation Army officers may have perceived
children in institutional homes as "evil" and believed it was their duty
to save them from their "vicious and criminal tendencies", a royal
commission has heard.
The Royal Commission into Institutional
Responses to Child Sexual Abuse is examining four children's homes in
Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria run by the Salvation
Army.http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-12/salvos-may-have-believed-eden-park-children-as-progeny-of-evil/6846308