Record award for Church abuse victims
Australia -
An Australian Roman Catholic order has agreed to pay 3.64m Australian dollars ($2.1m) in compensation to 24 mentally handicapped men who were sexually abused while in its care.
The out-of-court settlement far exceeds previous compensation awards made by the Catholic Church or religious orders in Australia in sex abuse cases.
A statement from the St John of God Brothers said: "The order acknowledges that some of the residents under its care were sexually abused by some brothers."
The disabled men, who were only teenagers at the time, were abused by up to 20 brothers in three Melbourne institutions run by the order over the past 30 years, a spokesman for the order said.
Read the article at BBC NEWS dated Thursday, 13 June, 2002
An Australian Roman Catholic order has agreed to pay 3.64m Australian dollars ($2.1m) in compensation to 24 mentally handicapped men who were sexually abused while in its care.
The out-of-court settlement far exceeds previous compensation awards made by the Catholic Church or religious orders in Australia in sex abuse cases.
A statement from the St John of God Brothers said: "The order acknowledges that some of the residents under its care were sexually abused by some brothers."
The disabled men, who were only teenagers at the time, were abused by up to 20 brothers in three Melbourne institutions run by the order over the past 30 years, a spokesman for the order said.
Read the article at BBC NEWS dated Thursday, 13 June, 2002
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