NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
A religious minister has never been prosecuted despite admitting abuse linked to a state-run home in Belfast, an inquiry has heard.
The pastor told the RUC in the 1980s that he abused a boy who was being cared for at the former Bawnmore children’s home in north Belfast.
The inquiry also heard from counsel Christine Smith that the former care worker told the RUC in the mid-80s about “other sexual incidents involving other people in the various places” where he worked.
The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry was told that the police wanted to pursue a prosecution against the man who cannot be named.
However, prosecutors decided against it because the incidents linked to the Bawnmore boy happened 17 years previously.
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