CLAIMS that children were murdered at a Salvation Army children's home in eastern Melbourne decades ago should be investigated more thoroughly, an abuse survivor has told an inquiry.
Brian Cherrie told a Victorian parliamentary inquiry there were numerous claims that children were beaten badly at the Salvation Army home in Bayswater and never seen again.
Mr Cherrie, who was 10 and 11 when he was raped by a manager at the Salvation Army boys' home in Box Hill, said homicide police should reopen their investigation into the claim.
"The homicide squad was at the Bayswater home approximately two years ago and they dug holes with a backhoe. They were looking for bodies. They didn't find anything," he told the inquiry on Monday.
"They relied on the memories from decades ago of various people."
Mr Cherrie said police had closed the investigation, but there were other techniques they could use to search for bodies.
"I'm not convinced these investigations have been exhausted and they should be," he said.
"There are more modern ways the police forces can look for bodies, like by ground thermal imaging and cadaver dogs."
Mr Cherrie said a list of names of children who had allegedly disappeared had been handed to the secretariat of the Family and Community Development Committee, which is conducting the inquiry.
He said it would not be hard to find out whether any had disappeared.
"They would not have signed off their wardships," he said.
"Most of them were state wards. If there's one name that doesn't come up in bank records or tax records or whatever, you know they've vanished from the face of the earth.
"People are quite ardent that kids were beaten that bad and never seen again, it should be followed through.
"I don't believe these things have been followed through fully.
"I really don't have confidence in that."
The inquiry into religious and non-governmental organisations' handling of sex abuse against children resumes on February 15 in Geelong.
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