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Article: Vic: Archdiocese denies paying "hush money" to abused victims
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- AAP General News (Australia)
- Article date:
- June 2, 2002
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Vic: Archdiocese denies paying "hush money" to abused victims
Melbourne's Catholic Archdiocese last night denied that its compensation
scheme for
victims of sexual abuse by priests is an attempt to silence the victims.
The Archdiocese's Vicar General, Monsignor CHRISTOPHER PROWSE,
says the church has
never offered hush money and never paid hush money.
He says 126 people have applied for and been granted compensation
under the scheme.
He says 101 of them are victims of priests who were ...