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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Alana Calvert

King’s charity ‘has insufficient funds’ for child sexual abuse payments

PA Wire

Survivors of farm schools where British children suffered physical and sexual abuse are imploring the King to intervene after they were told his charity, the Prince’s Trust, had “insufficient monies” to adequately pay compensation.

The Prince’s Trust became liable for the Fairbridge Society in 2012 when it absorbed the charity which for 70 years had sent tens of thousands of British children to farm orphanages in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the former Rhodesia, where they suffered cruelty, mistreatment and sexual abuse.

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