AUSTRALIA
Ilawarra Mercury
Kate McIlwain
@kmcilwain
17 Feb 2017
Just over $500,000 has been paid to Wollongong victims of alleged child sexual abuse by the Catholic Church, new data from the royal commission has revealed.
This makes up a tiny proportion (0.18 per cent) of the $280 million paid out by the church over the past 35 years, and puts the Diocese of Wollongong among the 15 Catholic authorities with the lowest average payments to victims.
In contrast, the diocese was last week named as one of the five areas with the highest proportion of priests alleged to be perpetrators.
Claims data released this week by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse shows 33 people made claim of child sexual abuse in the Wollongong diocese.
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