AUSTRALIA
The Age
September 9, 2013
Caroline Zielinski
Police Reporter at The Age
The royal commission on child sex abuse is ”not enough” to compensate abused children, according to a group representing former victims.
Care Leavers Australia Network is demanding the Victorian government, churches and charities acknowledge the full extent of abuse, neglect and slave labour forced on thousands of orphaned children.
The group staged a protest outside St Paul’s Cathedral in the city on Sunday to let people know about the ”abuse the orphans copped, and the abuse children suffer in general”.
The group’s chief executive, Leonie Sheedy, said the government, churches and charities in Victoria should contribute to a redress scheme for people who were abused as children under their care. She said many former victims lived in poverty and on disability pensions and were finding it difficult to move on.
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