AUSTRALIA
The Guardian
September 3, 2018
By Judy Courtin and Chris Atmore
The redress scheme for child sex abuse victims is unjust and damaging
The lack of transparency around the guidelines used to award compensation to victims of sex abuse is repugnant
A man, sexually assaulted in the 1970s at Melbourne’s Trinity Grammar School, recently received $500,000 in compensation. This prompted the elite private school to opt into the national redress scheme for victims of institutional child sex abuse.
At face value, Trinity, along with other institutions joining the national scheme, has put the interests of victims and survivors of institutional child sex crimes, above and beyond its own.
But, this disguises a much more disquieting reality.
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