Courts could order institutions held criminally responsible for child sexual abuse to compensate victims, a report says.
The report, published on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse's website on Friday, said organisations should be held criminally liable for abuse perpetrated by people linked to them, because targeting only offenders did not offer victims complete justice.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/child-sex-abuse-criminally-liable-institutions-could-be-ordered-to-pay-compensation-20150717-giet8v.html
The report, published on the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse's website on Friday, said organisations should be held criminally liable for abuse perpetrated by people linked to them, because targeting only offenders did not offer victims complete justice.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/child-sex-abuse-criminally-liable-institutions-could-be-ordered-to-pay-compensation-20150717-giet8v.html