AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
Joshua Robertson
Wednesday 8 April 2015
Victims of institutional childhood sexual abuse may have to rethink expectations about money payments and the level of scrutiny applied to claims for redress, according to a criminologist who has studied the issue in depth.
Griffith University professor Kathleen Daly said she was concerned with a “misfit” between what survivors wish to receive and what will be required in an assessment process in the wake of the royal commission.
The commission has said it had “no fixed view on what payments should be” but released a consultation paper with a report in January by Finity consulting which modelled different average payments of $50,000 to $80,000.
A scheme that offered an estimated 65,000 claimants an average of $65,000 would cost $3.8bn in payments alone before other costs including counselling, the report found.
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