NORTHERN IRELAND
Yahoo! News
A senior official at a Catholic order investigating the first sexual abuse allegations at a Northern Ireland children’s home said the matter was best forgotten about, a public inquiry heard.
An overseer De La Salle brother at Rubane House in Co Down, now dead, faced claims first raised by a group of four boys who confided about their experiences to a priest in 1958. The number complaining eventually grew to nine, the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry was told.
The alleged victims said their alleged abuser told them he was taking the place of their parents and was entitled to touch them.
Some boys accused him of making them strip and rubbing ointment for scabies on him. Abuse allegedly happened at the home and in a car.
A letter from the senior brother in the order to the alleged abuser concluded that no reference was to be made at any time to his probe into the claims.
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