Call for Gold Card to Help Sex Victims

By Pia Akerman
The Australian
December 17, 2012

www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/call-for-gold-card-to-help-sex-victims/story-fn59niix-1226537926238

A SURVIVOR of child sexual abuse has called for the Catholic Church to embrace a new style of compensating victims by paying for their medical treatment, in a scheme similar to the war veterans' Gold Card.

Peter Blenkiron, who was 11 years old when he was abused by a priest at school in Ballarat, has put forward the idea as he prepares to give evidence next year to the Victorian government's inquiry into how organisations, including the church, have dealt with abuse claims against them.