Upping abuse payout ‘damage control’
over 1 year in Otago Daily Times
Sarah — not her real name — a survivor of historical sexual abuse, is heartbroken after going through the MSD historical claims process. PHOTO: LINDA ROBERTSON
An historical sexual abuse case that took nearly five years to resolve left a Dunedin survivor heartbroken and drained of her drive for justice. She tells Tim Scott how she feels her childhood abuse was made all about money, and that the system failed her again nearly 50 years later.