AUSTRALIA
SBS
AAP
The redress obligations of cash-poor but asset-rich institutions where children were abused will be covered in a report to be delivered next year, the chairman of the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse says.
Justice Peter McClellan told a forum organised by victims’ support organisation Care Leavers Australia Network (CLAN) that redress was a priority and a report would be handed down by mid-2015.
Following Saturday’s 30-minute keynote address, Justice McClellan was asked questions by abuse survivors, many of whom had travelled interstate for a forum marking the 14th anniversary of CLAN.
One woman asked why assets “built on the backs of children” could not be taken back.
Justice McClellan said the issue had been raised especially at a Christian Brothers hearing in Perth.
Boys who were placed in now infamous homes such the Bindoon farm had to build their own institution.
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