AUSTRALIA
SBS
[with video]
By SBS News
7 DEC 2015
Victims of child sexual abuse at the Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne will be eligible for up to $80,000 in compensation under a redress scheme launched today.
Accepting the compensation will not remove their right to take further legal action, nor will they be required to sign any confidentiality agreements.
Melbourne’s Yeshivah Centre appointed an independent panel to design the scheme.
The scheme’s co-ordinator, Michael Debinski, said victims will be encouraged to report sexual abuse allegations to police, but the decision to report will be up to them.
Former student and abuse victim Manny Waks, whose case sparked the Child Abuse Royal Commission’s investigation of Yeshivah College, came back from his new home in Israel to hear details of a landmark compensation package and an apology.
“There are few cases like Yeshivah where a community turned on its victims and where good people stood by and did nothing,” he said.
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