AUSTRALIA
Sky News
Victims of sex abuse in homes run by the Salvation Army will likely have to wait several years to learn if a review of their cases will result in increased compensation payments.
The review of all previous settlements is already underway by the army in relation to children who were abused at four homes – at Eden Park in Adelaide, at Box Hill and Bayswater in Melbourne and at Nedlands in Perth.
In some cases former residents who were abused over long periods received just a few thousand dollars.
But the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse has been told that a decision on what increased payments might be made would not be taken until after the federal government’s response to the commission’s findings with particular reference to a national redress scheme.
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