00:04A final chance to say goodbye before the doors close.
00:08Congregants at Townsville's St Mark's Church saying farewell before it's put up for sale.
00:15This has to happen because of things in the past and somebody's got to pay for it.
00:23The Anglican Diocese of North Queensland entered into receivership last year.
00:27Now we're at the stage where we're closing down churches which is still an act of use, which is even
00:33sadder and has more grief.
00:35A report listed historic child sexual abuse claims as its largest area of expenditure.
00:41There are more than 100 claims under the National Redress Scheme and about 40 civil claims.
00:47The church did some evil things.
00:50We had some real evil bastards who were priests and even a bishop.
00:54And they did awful things they'll never have done.
00:57Across the state's north, nearly a dozen properties like this one are being prepared to go on the market,
01:03with the next stage of sales to be approved by the Supreme Court in July.
01:08It's been difficult for those with relatives' remains interred at churches expected to be sold.
01:14I would be really devastated, really devastated, not just for me but for the many other people in the community.
01:22Advocates say financial compensation is an important part of healing for survivors of abuse.
01:28It's important for victims that they don't feel responsible for the church's financial position.
01:34But let'stype dearest the church and police and all departmentsure to be involved with people in a special operation.
01:35That's things that we should say in rapier than campus,
01:36that you need to be puisque in a church has been utilized.
01:36So it's umm-chained or what I need to do with prevention is 120 candlestick races.
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