NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
A serving soldier admitted abusing a boy from a residential home run by Anglican missionaries in Northern Ireland but was never prosecuted, a public inquiry lawyer said.
The serviceman first came to Northern Ireland at the start of the Troubles in 1969 and visited Manor House Children’s Home near Belfast to take children on day trips and play football, his testimony to police said.
Stormont’s power-sharing administration has established an independent probe which has received allegations of physical and sexual wrongdoing at the institution run by the Society for the Irish Church Missions to the Roman Catholics.
Christine Smith QC, counsel for the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry, said one alleged perpetrator was later interviewed by police.
“He took children on day trips, played football, and admitted having feelings for MH41 (one of the residents).
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