NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
BY LIAM CLARKE – 19 JUNE 2015
Stormont must start planning a “redress scheme” for victims of child sex abuse – including those preyed on by paedophile priests such as Fr Brendan Smyth and others assaulted in Kincora Boys’ Home, an international expert has warned.
In Australia and Canada, ex-gratia payments are being made to survivors of child abuse who are now adults.
In Canada it is £28,500 and in Australia it is an average of £14,400.
Criminology professor Dr Kathleen Daly said it was high time politicians started talking seriously about a redress scheme.
“These are considerable sums and victims and survivors are getting older – so we need to start talking now,” she said.
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