AUSTRALIA
The Age
Jane Lee
People who were sexually abused by Victorian clergy as adults are being excluded from the Catholic Church’s pledge to top-up historic compensation payments.
Last November, Melbourne Archbishop Denis Hart doubled the ceiling for payments to victims, through the Melbourne Response compensation scheme, to $150,000.
This was one of the recommendations of former federal court judge Donnell Ryan, QC, who reviewed Melbourne Response in 2014.
The church also came under pressure to make the scheme more generous and transparent during the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
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