AUSTRALIA
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AAP
A $47,000 compensation payout to the victim of a pedophile priest is not enough, a priest has told an inquiry.
Australian Army chaplain and former Ballarat bishop’s secretary Monsignor Glynn Murphy says compensation needs to be a whole package.
Former Diocese of Ballarat priest Gerald Francis Ridsdale has been jailed for abusing 53 children, including victim BWA who he abused for two years.
Dr Kristine Hanscombe QC told the child abuse royal commission BWA initiated proceedings to get compensation shortly after Ridsdale was first convicted in 1993.
Monsignor Murphy agreed taking five years to settle a compensation claim when someone had been convicted for the offence was an inordinate amount of time.
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