Put here because ... I cannot face anybody trying to excuse these guys

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Christian Brothers asked alleged abuse victims to pay costs, says lawyer
The Christian Brothers opened negotiations to settle abuse allegations in Western Australia by asking their accusers to pay court costs, the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse has heard.

Hayden Stephens, a partner at law firm Slater and Gordon, said the Christian Brothers "ignored" requests by a law firm to clarify their organisational structure while being sued by survivors of sexual abuse in the 1990s.

In Perth on Thursday, Stephens was asked by the commission chairman, Peter McClellan, about the order's opening gambit in settlement negotiations.

Christian Brothers ‘viewed litigators with bias’
The Christian Brothers had a prejudice against abuse survivors who pursued them through the courts in the 1990s instead of seeking pastoral care, a lawyer for the order has told a royal commission.

Howard Harrison, a partner at Carroll and O’Dea solicitors, gave evidence yesterday that there may have been an ill-informed categorisation that people seeking compensation through the courts were somehow less deserving.

Survivors of extreme sexual and other physical abuse received as little as $2000 each in a tough negotiation that ended with victims signing away their rights to pursue the Christian Brothers any further, the commission heard this week.

This second may seem to be behind a paywall.

[AtheistCrusader]

1. Wow, that is sick.

What kind of creature would have the nerve to ask for that in opening negotiations?

[defacto7]

3. Just the shame of it should make these people

let it go. But that's usually the lawyers talking. They always throw that stuff in even without asking their clients because that's how they get their pound of flesh. NPI