THE Catholic Church has paid more than $25 million to Hunter region
child sexual abuse survivors, the Royal Commission into Institutional
Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has been told on the first day of a
public hearing into Maitland-Newcastle diocese.
The diocese has substantiated claims or complaints from 158 people relating to 31 different perpetrators, counsel assisting the royal commission, Mr Stephen Free, said in an opening address highlighting decades of abuse in the region.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/4132842/catholic-church-pays-257-million-in-newcastle-claims/
The diocese has substantiated claims or complaints from 158 people relating to 31 different perpetrators, counsel assisting the royal commission, Mr Stephen Free, said in an opening address highlighting decades of abuse in the region.
http://www.theherald.com.au/story/4132842/catholic-church-pays-257-million-in-newcastle-claims/