AUSTRALIA
Northern Star
Andy Parks 25th Feb 2014
A VICTIM of abuse at the Anglican Church’s North Coast Children’s Home has said the offer of compensation made to him was an insult.
Mr S (to protect his identity) said the offer of $3000 was for years of abuse that had left him “a total wreck”.
“The Church is saying ‘take it or leave it, that’s the offer’… It’s like they’re saying ‘that’s all you’re worth’. That’s what they said to us when we were in the home; that we were worth nothing.”
The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse last year heard evidence of brutal physical and sexual abuse at the Lismore home from the 1940s to the 1980s.
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