Victim cries as he recalls abuse at Salvation Army boys' home

A victim of child sexual abuse has burst into tears at a public hearing as he recalled being raped by a Salvation Army officer at a boys' home.

The man, known as JF, was nine when he was sent to the Alkira boys' home in the Brisbane suburb of Indooroopilly.

It was 1948, and his father had just shot and killed his mother.

He has told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse he was bashed and raped by officers, and on one occasion taken to hospital after the abuse.

"The emotional impact of being in the home was particularly bad, because you never knew what was going to happen," JF said.

When he reported the abuse 60 years later, he was given a written apology and $27,000 - a compensation figure he thinks is "completely inadequate".

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A victim of child sexual abuse has burst into tears at a public hearing as he recalled being raped by a Salvation Army officer at a boys' home.

The man, known as JF, was nine when he was sent to the Alkira boys' home in the Brisbane suburb of Indooroopilly.

It was 1948, and his father had just shot and killed his mother.

He has told the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse he was bashed and raped by officers, and on one occasion taken to hospital after the abuse.

"The emotional impact of being in the home was particularly bad, because you never knew what was going to happen," JF said.

When he reported the abuse 60 years later, he was given a written apology and $27,000 - a compensation figure he thinks is "completely inadequate".