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Friday , May 24 2013
St. Johns’ lawyer Bob Buckingham says he doesn’t expect the compensation owed to the victims of the Mount Cashel sex abuse scandal to be distributed until some time next year. Buckingham was weighing in on a mediation settlement reached this week for survivors of abuse at the hands of the Irish Christian Brothers. Buckingham says the claims should have been settled years ago, and the process should not have taken so long to settle. He says the resistance of the Christian Brothers, the Roman Catholic Church, and responsible governments to settle the matter delayed the process to get survivors of abuse the justice and compensation they were due.
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