A shocking and horrible secret that has been
going on in the Austrialian army has been
exposed in which would-be soldiers are forced to
perform vile sexual acts on each other.
According to Dailymail, Australian Defence Force
cadets were told to 'suck it up' after being forced
by seniors officers to rape or perform horrific sex
acts on one another while others were pushed to
suicide, a royal commission has heard.
cadets were told to 'suck it up' after being forced
by seniors officers to rape or perform horrific sex
acts on one another while others were pushed to
suicide, a royal commission has heard.
Investigation into the horrible act commenced on
Tuesday in Sydney by the Royal Commission into
Institutional Responses to Child S*x Abuse. The
examination into the ADF's handling of abuse
allegations will involve the navy, army and
airforce.
Those who survived the horrific ordeal has told the
commission there was a 'culture of abuse' and
secrecy in defence force facilities across the
country, with its teenage recruits subjected vile
sexual, emotional and physical abuse at the hands
of senior officers, the Sydney Morning Herald
reported.
The commission heard how 15-year-old cadet
Eleanore Tibble was driven to commit suicide after
the ADF threatened her with a dishonourable
discharge because she had a sexual relationship
with a 30-year-old instructor.
Her mother Susan Campbell was among the 111
people who contacted the commission about the
ADF as they failed to tell her daughter the
'fraternisation' charges were being dropped.
Giving evidence, a former Navy cadet who served
at the Leeuwin base, in Perth's south, in 1967 told
the commission he was 'repeatedly' dragged to an
oval, raped and forced to perform oral sex on his
fellow recruits.
'I was forced to suck another recruit's penis or lick
a junior recruit's anus. This was often after another
recruit who had been buggered by an older recruit
and ejaculated into,' the man who was given the
pseudonym CJA told the hearing.
'Other times I was forced to have anal intercourse
with junior recruits or I was raped by another junior
recruit who was directed to so by the older recruits
or base staff, ' he added.
He said senior officers told him to 'suck it up' as
they had done and that the continued abuse would
'make a man out of him', the Sydney Morning
Herald reported.
CJA also told the commission he was afraid to
complain after witnessing a chef ejaculate into an
officer's food before it was presented to him.
Graeme Frazer, who survived horrendous abuse
when he was 16 the same naval training base said
it took 36 years before the Navy and the
Department of Defence acknowledged the systemic
abuse.
A task force was set up in 2012 to look at 2,400
historical complaints of abuse in the ADF.
