AUSTRALIA
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The devastating long-term effects of child sexual abuse and how the Anglican Church paid off victims from a NSW orphanage where children were brutally beaten will be highlighted at a national inquiry.

Hearings in the third case study by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse open in Sydney on Monday and will focus on the response of the Anglican Diocese of Grafton to claims of child sexual abuse at the North Coast Children’s Home in Lismore.

How the diocese handled a group claim for compensation will also be examined.

In 2007 the church offered a total of $825,000 to 41 former residents of the orphanage.

Some rejected the offer and described it as shamefully inadequate, and civil claims were launched.