NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
Kincora Boys’ Home will not be included in UK child abuse inquiry, says Theresa Villiers
BY CLAIRE CROMIE – 21 OCTOBER 2014
Kincora Boys’ Home abuse allegations will not be included in the new UK-wide inquiry into child sex abuse.
Secretary of State Theresa Villiers has said the best way to address the claims was for them to be examined by Sir Anthony Hart’s Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry in Northern Ireland.
DUP, UUP, Sinn Fein, SDLP and Alliance politicians have all called for the east Belfast case to be part of the Home Office probe chaired by Fiona Woolf.
First Minister Peter Robinson said it was a “national scandal” with questions that needed to be answered about an alleged cover-up.
The UK inquiry will consider whether, and to what extent, public bodies and other institutions fulfilled their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse.
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