AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Jessica Longbottom
Updated 10 May 2015
The Victorian Government is yet to implement half the recommendations made in the landmark Betrayal of Trust report into sex abuse, a year after the previous government committed to them.
The report was handed down in 2013, following a parliamentary inquiry into the handling of child abuse by religious and other organisations.
The main concern of sex abuse survivors is the stalling of a redress scheme for victims, which would be funded by organisations accused of abuse, but run by the State Government.
At the moment, survivors must go back to the organisation where they were abused to receive compensation.
Survivor Andrew Collins said that system was not working.
“To say ‘okay if you want any sort of compensation, go back to the entity where you’re abused and throw yourself at their mercy and just hope and pray they’ll give you whatever scraps you can get’, there’s no justice, there’s no justice,” he said.
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