AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Matt Eaton and Francis Tapim
The Anglican Church will reimburse tuition fees for all students who suffered sexual abuse at their schools within the Diocese of Brisbane, which covers much of southern Queensland.
A diocese spokesman said a letter would be sent to school principals, possibly as early as today.
To date, however, all abuse complaints lodged with the diocese have concerned St Paul’s School in northern Brisbane.
The fee refund announcement came after Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane Phillip Aspinall received a letter by a woman whose brother was abused at the Anglican-run St Paul’s, requesting his tuition fees be repaid.
Dr Aspinall spoke to the woman outside the Brisbane hearings of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which examined the conduct of school counsellor Kevin John Lynch and music teacher and convicted paedophile Gregory Robert Knight.
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