NORTHERN IRELAND
The Irish News
Michael McHugh, Press Association
29 June, 2016
THERE was no evidence of paedophile or prostitution rings involving members of the establishment at Kincora boys’ home in Northern Ireland, a retired detective has said.
The east Belfast home has long been at the centre of allegations about a group of abusers involving high-profile political and military figures in the 1970s.
There are also claims that security services covered up the abuse in order to use the perpetrators for intelligence purposes.
Retired Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) detective chief superintendent George Caskey said: “There was no paedophile ring or prominent figures involved in abusing boys at Kincora.”
However children were often legitimately moved between homes as part of normal care arrangements and an individual working at another premises may have advised a paedophile convicted of abuse about his targets, the former senior officer told retired judge Sir Anthony Hart’s Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry.
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