AUSTRALIA
Adelaide Now
Nigel Hunt
June 16, 2012
VICTIMS of paedophile Brian Perkins are seeking millions of dollars in compensation from the Catholic Church.
In the latest move in the St Ann’s Special School controversy, six abuse victims will launch legal action in the District Court over their sexual abuse at the hands of Perkins, who was a bus driver and woodwork teacher at the Marion school.
The Catholic Church paid a significant out-of-court settlement last year to another of Perkins’ victims, but has declined to negotiate similar payments to the six intellectually disabled men also claiming compensation.
Perkins, who died in 2009, sexually abused 36 students at St Ann’s Special School between 1986 and 1991.
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