Compensation for abuse

Sir: Christopher Akehurst wonders about the appropriateness of financial compensation for sexual abuse claimants, an idea I often quietly nurse. How could money be a salve for lingering memories of sexual crimes? As historical sexual abuse allegations are often contentious due to a lack of witnesses, I’m personally aware of a wrongful verdict, which was bad enough, but then the claimants lined up for money, and that was galling.