AUSTRALIA
My Daily News
28th May 2013
THE Australian Lawyers Alliance has called on the Catholic Church to “put its money where its mouth is” and use its vast wealth to properly compensate victims who fell prey to paedophile priests.
During hearings of the Victorian parliamentary inquiry into sexual abuse in the Church on Monday, Cardinal George Pell accepted the Church could pay victims “proper compensation”.
ALA spokesman Dr Andrew Morrison SC said Cardinal Pell told the inquiry the Church would pay whatever compensation the government thought proper, and “he should be taken at his word”.
“Governments throughout Australia should immediately make the Church trustees liable for the conduct of the Church and the Church should in turn be held liable for the conduct of its priests,” Dr Morrison said.
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