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15/07/2014
Nesbitt Backs Kincora Inquiry Calls
Ulster Unionist Party leader Mike Nesbitt has backed calls to include east Belfast's Kincora Boys Home in a UK-wide inquiry into how public bodies dealt with allegations of child abuse.
Mr Nesbitt said: "This is not a criticism of the current Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry headed by Sir Anthony Hart. Rather it is an acknowledgement that the HIA's Terms of Reference limit him to examine 'if there were systemic failings by institutions or the state in their duties towards those children in their care'. The point about Kincora is that abuse was carried out, not as part of a systemic policy, but as a horrible, murky attempt to use children to gain control over prominent public figures.
"For most of my adult life, there have been persistent rumours about who was either involved, or knew of what was going on but said nothing. It is long past the time when we pay our debt to the victims by exposing the wrong-doing that took place at Kincora."
The inclusion of Kincora in the UK-wide inquiry has been backed by Amnesty International and politicians, including the former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone.
The inquiry was announced by Home Secretary Theresa May and is being set up to examine how public institutions treated their duty of care to protect children from abuse.
(IT/MH)
Mr Nesbitt said: "This is not a criticism of the current Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry headed by Sir Anthony Hart. Rather it is an acknowledgement that the HIA's Terms of Reference limit him to examine 'if there were systemic failings by institutions or the state in their duties towards those children in their care'. The point about Kincora is that abuse was carried out, not as part of a systemic policy, but as a horrible, murky attempt to use children to gain control over prominent public figures.
"For most of my adult life, there have been persistent rumours about who was either involved, or knew of what was going on but said nothing. It is long past the time when we pay our debt to the victims by exposing the wrong-doing that took place at Kincora."
The inclusion of Kincora in the UK-wide inquiry has been backed by Amnesty International and politicians, including the former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone.
The inquiry was announced by Home Secretary Theresa May and is being set up to examine how public institutions treated their duty of care to protect children from abuse.
(IT/MH)
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