Major Colin Haggar

Major Colin Haggar is one of 17 Salvation Army employees who was looked by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Major Haggar was initially sacked by the Salvation Army in 1990 after he admitted to sexually assaulting a girl aged eight in 1989. However, in 1993 Major Haggar was reinstated with former Salvos Chief of Personnel Major Peter Farthing stating to the Royal Commission in 2014 that sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl did not make Mr Haggar a paedophile.

The Royal Commission looked into Colin Haggar’s case in it Final Report, Religious Institutions Vol 16 Book 3, and concluded that while some disciplinary action was taken against Colin Haggar, he should have never have been promoted or placed in a managerial role considering further allegations of sexual abuse had emerged throughout his career with the Salvation Army. Due to these other allegations, Major Haggar was forced to retire by the Salvation Army in 2013.

Moody Law is currently representing victims of child sexual abuse by members or employees of the Salvation Army.

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