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<p>The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) does not hold information about
how many victims of sexual abuse have been refused compensation since 1996 because
they had a criminal conviction related to the coercion aspect of the grooming process.</p><p>It
has only been mandatory for applicants to provide an indication of the type of incident
for which they are claiming compensation since 1 January 2015. Since that date, 180
applications from victims of sexual abuse have been refused compensation by CICA as
a result of the non-discretionary Scheme rule that excludes compensation in circumstances
where the criminal injury was sustained before 1 October 1979 and, at the time of
the incident, the applicant and assailant were living together as members of the same
family.</p>
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