AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Thursday October 3, 2013
Catholic Church reforms to its handling of clerical abuse claims are an attempt to maintain private control of a compensation scheme for victims of abuse, a NSW MP says.
The church announced on Thursday that it was looking at a separation of its pastoral and compensation roles when it came to dealing with victims of child sexual abuse.
Under the proposal the reparation elements of the church’s Towards Healing process could work alongside any future national compensation scheme.
Towards Healing was set up by the church in 1996 to deal with complaints from abuse victims and to pay compensation.
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