AUSTRALIA
news.com.au
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Megan Neil
Australian Associated Press
Child sex abuse victims are bypassing the Catholic Church’s Towards Healing process and even those whose job it is to administer it “wouldn’t have a bar of it” if seeking compensation.
The Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle’s child protection agency says victims are not going to Towards Healing, instead choosing to work directly with the diocese to obtain compensation.
“I think the public standing of Towards Healing has been significantly, if not permanently, damaged,” Zimmerman Services manager Sean Tynan told the child abuse royal commission on Thursday.
“The case study conducted by this royal commission exposed a circumstance that if I were coming forward to seek compensation I wouldn’t have a bar of.”
The director of professional standards for the Catholic Church in Queensland, Mark Eustance, said he was not a great defender of the national protocol either.
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