BALLARAT (AUSTRALIA)
ABC News
By Charlotte King
October 10, 2018
A former resident of a children’s home in Ballarat says she has been told she may have to wait more than two years for compensation if the institution decides not to opt in to the voluntary National Redress Scheme.
Cheryl Bihari, who was placed in Ballarat Orphanage in 1963, said she was seven years old when she was sexually assaulted by the superintendent soon after she arrived in the home.
Ms Bihari said applying for redress was in itself a traumatic experience.
“I looked at [the paperwork], and I thought, ‘oh my god how am I going to do this?'” she said.
“I’d do a couple of questions, I’d go away, come back again and then I’d do another.
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