AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Lucy McNally
The Anglican Church says it is trying to make amends to around 45 abuse victims by offering some of them up to $75,000 each in compensation.
Last year the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse looked at the North Coast Children’s Home in Lismore.
Run by the Anglican Church, it was a place of brutal physical and sexual abuse between the 1940s and the 1980s.
The Commission examined the way the church dealt with a group of victims who launched a class action back in 2008.
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