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12/08/2014
Historical Abuse Turns To Australia
The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry is to turn its attentions to a migration scheme that involved the transport of children from Northern Ireland to Australia, when it recommences public hearings at the beginning of September.
Hearings for the second module of evidence are to begin at 11:00 on 1 September at Banbridge Courthouse in County Down.
A team from the Inquiry and its Acknowledgement Forum has already made two trips to Australia. The Inquiry said that 66 applicants, now residing in Australia, were interviewed. All individuals had applied to participate in the inquiry.
The witnesses being asked to provide evidence are those that can describe events that occurred to them before they left Northern Ireland, when they were send as child migrants to Australia.
The Inquiry said that between 1946 and 1956, children were sent from various institutions in Northern Ireland to institutions in Australia as part of a UK government policy of child migration.
The next hearings are to focus on the former De La Salle Boys’ Home, Rubane House, in Kircubbin, County Down.
The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry was formally established in January 2013 by the Northern Ireland Executive to investigate child abuse that occurred in residential institutions in Northern Ireland over a 73-year period up to 1995.
(IT/CD)
Hearings for the second module of evidence are to begin at 11:00 on 1 September at Banbridge Courthouse in County Down.
A team from the Inquiry and its Acknowledgement Forum has already made two trips to Australia. The Inquiry said that 66 applicants, now residing in Australia, were interviewed. All individuals had applied to participate in the inquiry.
The witnesses being asked to provide evidence are those that can describe events that occurred to them before they left Northern Ireland, when they were send as child migrants to Australia.
The Inquiry said that between 1946 and 1956, children were sent from various institutions in Northern Ireland to institutions in Australia as part of a UK government policy of child migration.
The next hearings are to focus on the former De La Salle Boys’ Home, Rubane House, in Kircubbin, County Down.
The Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry was formally established in January 2013 by the Northern Ireland Executive to investigate child abuse that occurred in residential institutions in Northern Ireland over a 73-year period up to 1995.
(IT/CD)
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