NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
The De La Salle religious order moved a serial sex abuser to Africa, in 1982, despite being aware of his crimes at a boys home in County Down.
The senior brother had previously been moved out of Rubane House, where he abused young boys, and became principal of a school in Downpatrick.
The details were revealed at the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry.
It is examining allegations of abuse at Rubane House in Kircubbin.
About 200 former residents have made allegations of abuse.
The inquiry also heard the De La Salle Religious Order paid compensation to victims who were sexually abused at Rubane House within years of the order ruling that a previous investigation into their abuser was “best forgotten”.
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