Catholic nuns have donated cars, overseas trips, home appliances and
other gifts to victims who claim they were abused as children in two New
Zealand orphanages.
The gifts are part of an undisclosed settlement reached by the
Sisters of Nazareth with 17 complainants who allege physical and sexual
abuse while in the nuns' care at Nazareth House and St Joseph's home in
Christchurch. The complaints span from the 1930s to the 1960s.