The Christian Brothers have reached new settlements with some of the former students who were abused at its West Australian boarding schools and previously given unjust payouts.
At the end of public hearings by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which looked at its Tardun, Bindoon, Clontarf and Castledare facilities in WA, the Christian Brothers undertook to re-examine cases that had been settled on unjust and unreasonably low terms.
Brother Peter Clinch said 130 requests for re-examination were received.
By the end of last month, 64 of those cases had been re-examined and new settlements reached.
"These resettled matters now account for 49 per cent of the requests received by the Christian Brothers Oceania relating to the Western Australian institutions," Brother Clinch said.
"The Christian Brothers are confident of continuing to make further progress in these matters over coming months."
The commission heard harrowing stories of sexual and physical torture, and slave labour, during the public hearings in Perth.
One man had been beaten so severely, he speaks with a pronounced stammer to this day.
The Christian Brothers announced at the end of the hearings they would provide for life-long professional psychological counselling for people who survived sexual and physical abuse in their care.
Share
