AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By the National Reporting Team’s Lorna Knowles
A judge has ordered that a victim of child sexual abuse should not be forced to pay his abuser’s $20,000 legal bill.
Mark Wurth was repeatedly sexually assaulted by his housemaster, Neville Gilbert Betteridge, at the Blue Mountains Grammar School in the 1970s.
Years later he sued his abuser and the Anglican Church, which ran the school, for damages.
The church paid him a confidential settlement and Mr Wurth then offered to withdraw his action against Betteridge.
But as the ABC reported exclusively in April, Betteridge demanded that Mr Wurth first pay his $20,000 legal bill.
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