AUSTRALIA
Sky News
An offer of $25,000 to a victim of long-term sex abuse was not enough, the man who heads the Catholic Church’s response office says.
Michael Salmon, the director of the Catholic Church’s Professional Standards Office (PSO) for NSW and the ACT, has told a royal commission that he always thought the Archdiocese of Sydney’s offer to John Ellis was not enough.
Mr Salmon organised the Towards Healing facilitation for Mr Ellis who was abused by Father Aidan Duggan when he was a teenaged altar boy in Bass Hill, from 1974 to 1979.
The royal commission into child sexual abuse is examining the church’s actions during Towards Healing and a court case brought by Mr Ellis.
Mr Salmon said several times on Wednesday he had ‘a firm belief’ Mr Ellis was telling the truth about abuse by Fr Duggan.
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