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11 December 2015

Abuse victims seeking 'easy cash': bishop

A Catholic bishop now says he was rash when he told a pedophile priest some child sex abuse victims were trying to get "some easy cash".
The child abuse royal commission has heard Bishop Brian Finnigan, then Ballarat diocese vicar-general, told convicted pedophile Gerald Francis Ridsdale in 1994: "Some of these fellows now see the opportunity to obtain some easy cash."

http://www.9news.com.au/national/2015/12/11/03/34/clergy-abuse-compo-not-enough-inquiry