The Catholic Church in Perth, Australia has been ordered to make a record payout of $2.45 million to a child abuse survivor, after a District Court ruling last week.
The 52-year-old man and former altar boy first meet WA priest Bertram Adderley in 1977, when he was an altar boy at Holy Cross Catholic Church, in Hamilton Hill, Perth.
Before entering the Church Adderley was a lay teacher at Perth’s prestigious Aquinas College in the 1950s, before joining a Parish in Bunbury and Hamilton Hill.
He first assaulted the victim in the Sacristy of the Parish church. Another time, he took the boy to a nudist beach in a suburb of Perth before assaulting him in his apartment.
