AUSTRALIA
The Guardian (UK)
Australian Associated Press
theguardian.com, Friday 2 May 2014
The Christian Brothers had a misplaced prejudice against physical and sexual abuse survivors who pursued them through the courts in the 1990s, a lawyer for the order has told an inquiry.
A lawyer for the religious order, Howard Harrison, said they may have had the “ill-informed” attitude that people seeking compensation through the courts were somehow less deserving.
“A misplaced prejudice,” Harrison said in response to a question on Friday at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
It also heard that a West Australian government compensation scheme for people abused in state care referred 2233 cases to WA police between 2008 and 2011.
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