{"id":11820,"date":"2018-07-24T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T14:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=11820"},"modified":"2018-07-30T07:05:43","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T11:05:43","slug":"woman-abused-by-her-stepfather-from-four-to-17-wins-right-to-compensation-in-ruling-which-means-victims-who-shared-address-with-their-attackers-will-now-be-eligible-for-payouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2018\/07\/24\/woman-abused-by-her-stepfather-from-four-to-17-wins-right-to-compensation-in-ruling-which-means-victims-who-shared-address-with-their-attackers-will-now-be-eligible-for-payouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman abused by her stepfather from four to 17 wins right to compensation"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0KEILIGH BAKER<\/a><\/p>\n

Victims of crime who lived at the same address as their attacker will be entitled to compensation after a landmark Court of Appeal ruling.\u00a0\u00a0Senior judges said that the so-called ‘same-roof’ rule, which denied compensation to those who lived in the same home as their attacker before 1979, is ‘incompatible’ with human rights laws.\u00a0\u00a0The court made its decision in the case of a woman who suffered serious sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather.\u00a0\u00a0The woman, identified only as JT for legal reasons, was denied the right to compensation because she shared a home with him – even though another victim of her stepfather received compensation.\u00a0\u00a0JT’s stepfather, who abused her when she was aged between four and 17, was convicted of eight offences including rape and sexual assault in 2012 and jailed for 14 years.\u00a0\u00a0But when she applied to the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA), which pays damages to victims of violent crime, she was refused a payout because of the rule.<\/p>\n

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