A former Salvation Army officer is tonight behind bars after pleading guilty to sexually abusing young girls in his care.
Among them, a woman, now in her thirties, who was just eight at the time of the offence.
She is relieved that Raymond Vince has finally been locked up but she is still angry with the Salvation Army, for not taking her complaints more seriously and for not apologising in the 18 years since.
For legal reasons the woman cannot be named, but she says she was sexually abused by Vince while he was holiday in the Waikato. It was the early 1980s.
Around that time, Vince was working in children's homes, including the Salvation Army's Bramwell Booth home in Temuka.
Once this victim finally broke `their secret', her mother took her to the local Salvation Army in Hamilton and laid a complaint.
Her mother said she got the impression they wanted to put the complaint in the too hard basket and did not want to have to deal with it.
“Before we could even name him, the Salvation Army in the room said, is it Raymond Vince? which we confirmed. We finished the interview and I've never heard from them again.
This victim was not the only one.
Vince has just been jailed for seven years after admitting nine charges of indecency against girls under 12 and one charge of raping a girl aged between 12 and 16. It happened from 1977 to 1984.
What remains upsetting for the victim mentioned in this story is the lack of action by the Salvation Army.
She says she and her mother raised a red flag but nothing was done.
They hoped he would be suspended or removed from working with kids, but instead, he was relocated and continued to work for the Salvation Army.
Her family was so angry, they laid another complaint, but again they say it fell on deaf ears.
The police have since told them, the Salvation Army has no record of their complaints.
Major Ross Gower is the Salvation Army's appointed media spokesman for sexual abuse against children.
“The salvation army certainly apologises carte blanche to anyone who has been offended whilst in care,” he said.
He stressed changes have been made.
“It would not happen today. We have very tight protocols around all those types of situations and today police checks are required.. which doesn't pick up people who are yet to be charged of course but certainly have very tight protocols of how to handle these sorts of complaints,” he said.
But those changes are too late for this victim. She has struggled for more than two decades with what happened in her bedroom as a child - when she was 20 she tried to take her life.
But now, in her 30s, she is working, raising her three girls and while she is moving on in her life, she has not forgotten.