SCOTLAND
Third Force News
1st May 2017 by Susan Smith
The founder of charity In Care Abuse Survivors (Incas), Frank Docherty, has died aged 74 while still campaigning for justice.
Docherty’s death aged 74 has led other campaigners for victims of child abuse in state care to call for an interim compensation scheme while the Scottish Government continues its Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.
They say there should be support for elderly victims like Docherty immediately as the inquiry is not due to report back until autumn 2019.
Docherty and his siblings were taken into care as a result of alcoholic parents when he was nine years old in 1954. They were housed at the Catholic-run orphanage Smyllum Park in Lanark where they suffered regular physical abuse including beatings and humiliation.
The orphanage is one of those specifically being investigated by the inquiry.
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