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Retta Dixon compensation offer to survivors 'too little too late', alleged victim Kevin Stagg says

An offer of compensation from a religious group at the centre of the Retta Dixon sexual abuse claims is too little, too late, an alleged abuse victim has said.

Retta Dixon was a home for Aboriginal children, many of whom have identifed as being part of the Stolen Generations, which existed in Darwin until it closed in 1980.

Reverend Trevor Leggott, who heads the Australian Indigenous Ministries (AIM) which for many years ran Retta Dixon, said it was expected that a property the organisation owns at Winmalee in the NSW Blue Mountains would be sold in the next two to four months.

The property has been valued at $350,000-$380,000 and money raised by the sale would be put into trust for providing financial compensation to victims of sexual abuse at Retta Dixon, Reverend Leggott has said.

His comments come in a new submission to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which has been investigating abuse at Retta Dixon and other facilities around Australia.

Kevin Stagg, who has told the royal commission about sexual abuse he suffered at Retta Dixon, said he did not want any money from AIM, and in any case, what was now being offered was insufficient.

"It is far, far too little too late," Mr Stagg said.

He said he thought it likely that AIM knew of abuse at Retta Dixon well before the royal commission met, and had failed to offer compensation in the past.

"They knew about it years ago, I am sure," Mr Stagg said.

The royal commission heard evidence about abuse at Retta Dixon occurring over decades, much of it involving Darwin paedophile Donald Bruce Henderson, who never faced trial over the allegations against him while he worked at the home.

Henderson was, however, convicted in 1984 of sexually abusing two boys at a Darwin public swimming pool, years after he left Retta Dixon, where he had worked as a "houseparent" and adopted two children.

In the past Reverend Leggott has maintained that while AIM owns properties worth about $4.1 million, many cannot be sold because they are on Aboriginal lands and most have stringent government or other conditions on them.

He has previously said that AIM is only able to sell two properties, but offloading those would leave the organisation unable to continue its present-day work with Indigenous communities.

In his latest submission to the royal commission, Reverend Leggott reiterated that selling the Winmalee property would have a significant negative impact on AIM's activities in NSW.

But he said the sale would go ahead because of the organisation's moral obligations to the victims of sexual abuse at Retta Dixon.

Reverend Leggott did not return a phone call from the ABC to comment on the submission.