AUSTRALIA
ABC News
By Charlotte King
A witness who gave harrowing evidence at the child sex abuse royal commission has called for the Government to enforce a redress scheme that would ensure the Catholic Church pay compensation to victims of past crimes.
Despite the mounting evidence of the horrific legacy of clergy abuse across western Victoria, many survivors have yet to receive any compensation for the harm they endured as children and its lifelong effects.
Gordon Hill, who has given evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse detailing his treatment at a catholic orphanage in Ballarat, says he has waited 65 years for compensation.
His body is covered in the physical scars of his abuse, making it difficult to ignore his past.
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