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19 May 2016

Nuns give gifts to sex abuse claimants

 Each time we asked for any help... they turned some of us away... even though a few of us... has asked for the same thing... so in the end I pulled out... it was like being abused over and over again... Lawyer Patrick McPherson... of Grant Cameron Associates, said;  The sisters made payments and apologies to claimants... but did not admit any wrongdoing... Ann
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Catholic nuns have donated cars, overseas trips, home appliances and other gifts to victims who claim they were abused as children in two New Zealand orphanages.
The gifts are part of an undisclosed settlement reached by the Sisters of Nazareth with 17 complainants who allege physical and sexual abuse while in the nuns' care at Nazareth House and St Joseph's home in Christchurch. The complaints span from the 1930s to the 1960s.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/23/1071941730577.html