NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC New NI
By Kevin Sharkey
BBC News NI
A member of a Catholic order failed to report alleged child abuse at a Belfast school at the height of the Kincora sex abuse scandal, an inquiry has heard.
The Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry has been told that two boys had informed staff at St Patrick’s Training School about alleged abuse.
The boys alleged that a worker “offered them money to do bad things with them”.
The claims were made in the 1980s, just months after news broke of the Kincora scandal in an east Belfast boys’ home.
St Patrick’s Training School, run by the De La Salle Order of Christian Brothers, was a juvenile justice centre based in west Belfast. It closed in 1995.
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