NSW child abuse compensation claims statute of limitations should be lifted, survivors better supported, Greens MP says

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ABC News

By the National Reporting Team’s Natasha Robinson and Rebecca Armitage

The NSW Government is under pressure to act immediately to introduce legislation to lift the statute of limitations that bars victims of abuse in institutional care from pursuing civil compensation cases.

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The call came as the NSW Government reached legal settlements with women who were abused as girls at the Parramatta Girls Training School.

The ABC understands that the State Government has reached a legal settlement with about 15 women who sued the state after suffering abuse at the Parramatta institution, which housed teenage girls between 1950 and 1974.

The home, also known as the Parramatta Girls Home, was the subject of a hearing of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in 2014.

At that time, it was revealed that a number of women had tried to pursue civil claims against the state for abuse including bashings and rapes suffered at the notoriously brutal Parramatta Girls Home.

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