AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Samantha Donovan
The Catholic Church has welcomed the recommendation of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse that a single national redress scheme be set up to compensate victims of institutional child sexual abuse.
The $4 billion scheme would offer compensation, counselling and psychological care and a response from the institution if requested.
The commission proposes the redress would be funded by the institutions where the abuse occurred.
CEO of the Catholic Church’s Truth, Justice and Healing Council, which is handling the church’s response to the royal commission, Francis Sullivan, said the redress scheme was something the church had been pushing for.
“The days of the Catholic Church investigating itself are over. This should be the case for all institutions,” he said.
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