NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
29 SEPTEMBER 2014
Sexual abuse was rampant at a children’s home in Northern Ireland run by a Catholic order of brothers, a former senior police officer has said.
Around a fifth of boys at Rubane House in Co Down were subjected to sexual or physical abuse, according to a public inquiry, equal to if not worse than that at another notorious home, Kincora in east Belfast.
Rubane was the subject of a police investigation in the 1990s, the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry was told. Three De La Salle order brothers were charged but none convicted after their trials did not go ahead due to legal issues.
Former Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) detective chief superintendent Eric Anderson wrote a note to the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
It said: “Sexual abuse by a considerable number of the De La Salle brothers on the children and consequently between children is rampant.”
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