AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Victims have staked out the first public hearing of the Royal Commission into child sex abuse, demanding the institutions involved be made to pay compensation.
Leonie Sheedy of Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN) says a fund needs to be set up now.
‘Our people are dying,’ she told AAP on Monday.
Ms Sheedy, standing in front of a line of signs held by CLAN members calling for churches and charities to be made accountable, said they were waiting to see what the commission would recommend but she feared it would come too late.
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in Sydney is looking at how organisations dealt with complaints about convicted pedophile Steve ‘Skip’ Larkins.
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