Tasmanian Anglican’s $2m Compensation to Victims of Child Sex Abuse

By Patrick Billings
Mercury
March 21, 2017

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TASMANIA’S Anglican Diocese has paid out $2.23 million to victims of child sex abuse, according to a new report.

The report by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex Abuse shows the payments were made to 34 victims.

Overall the diocese has received 56 complaints related to 34 perpetrators.

Six of the complaints related to Anglican schools while 10 were connected to the Church of England Boys Society (CEBS), which was examined by the Royal Commission last year.

The commission’s lawyers have alleged that a far-reaching paedophile ring was active within CEBS, a Scout-like offshoot of the Anglican Church.