AUSTRALIA
Goulburn Post
Louise Thrower
@ThrowerLouise
4 Apr 2017
The Catholic Archdiocese of Canberra/Goulburn has paid out $1.82 million in compensation to victims of sexual abuse.
The figures, tendered to the recent Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, relate to the period 1950 to 2010.
The Archdiocese’s Institute for Professional Standards and Safeguarding director Matt Casey said 73 people made a claim of sexual abuse by over the 60 years. Forty-four of these were leveled against clergy and 28 against lay people.
Half of all the claims were made against two priests, Father Pat Cusack and Father Lloyd Reynolds. The former served in Canberra and Goulburn was the target of 23 claims, Mr Casey said. He died in 1977 and the church only became aware of the allegations in 1993.
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