AUSTRALIA
Daily Telegraph
PATRICK BILLINGS
Mercury
NEARLY $100 million will be needed to compensate and care for Tasmanian victims of child sex abuse perpetrated by the state’s institutions.
The royal commission into institutional pedophilia handed down its final report into a redress scheme yesterday.
It recommended a $4.01 billion national scheme for 60,000 victims.
The commission found compensation and continuing psychological care would cost both government and private institutions in Tasmania an estimated $96 million.
This was based on an average payout of $65,000 to the 1750 Tasmanian victims who have approached the commission, plus $10 million in continuing counselling costs.
Tasmania’s contribution to administering a national redress scheme would be an estimated $5 million.
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