AUSTRALIA
ABC News

By Charlotte King

A religious order implicated in a notorious child sex abuse ring in Victoria has been accused of refusing to assist victims achieve adequate compensation.

A survivor and his lawyer said the Christian Brothers, who ran the St Alipius Boys School in Ballarat, were adopting a smoke and mirrors approach to avoid paying up.

Ron Kochskamper was nine years old when he started at St Alipius in 1965.

“So here I come as a bright, fresh-faced child, ready to go to school. And here are these hardened paedophiles. Basically, I didn’t have a hope. We were lambs to the slaughter,” he said.

For decades, Mr Kochskamper said he repressed his memories of abuse.