AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
Liam Croy and Nick Butterly – The West Australian on October 15, 2016
The Catholic Church in WA has paid a woman $100,000 in compensation and pulled down and destroyed a memorial honouring the once-revered priest who abused her.
The Church has acknowledged former Floreat priest Father Peter McCudden abused Tasmanian woman Wendy Holder when she was visiting relatives in Perth in 1965. She was 13 at the time.
The Church paid Mrs Holder $75,000 in 2003 and offered her another $25,000 this year as a “gesture of goodwill”.
At the time of the 2002 compensation agreement, the Church promised to remove a plaque memorialising McCudden from the wall of his former parish church, St Cecilia’s in Floreat.
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