01/09/2004
Government name team to investigate prep school sex allegations
Education Minister Barry Gardiner has today appointed the team to undertake an inquiry into child sex abuse allegations at Cabin Hill Preparatory School.
The case centres on allegations that a 13-year-old boy indecently assaulted younger boys in the early 1990s at the school near Holywood.
Douglas Osler, former HM Senior Chief Inspector of Education in Scotland; Lynne Peyton, formerly Regional Director with NSPCC (NI) and an Assistant Director of Social Services with Southern Health and Social Services Board; and William Calvert, former Principal of Dalriada School will investigate the case for the Department of Education.
The incidents allegedly took place between 1992 and 1993 at the prep school for Campbell College but were not made public until May 1999.
The inquiry, which is to be held in private, will be filed with the Government next January.
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The case centres on allegations that a 13-year-old boy indecently assaulted younger boys in the early 1990s at the school near Holywood.
Douglas Osler, former HM Senior Chief Inspector of Education in Scotland; Lynne Peyton, formerly Regional Director with NSPCC (NI) and an Assistant Director of Social Services with Southern Health and Social Services Board; and William Calvert, former Principal of Dalriada School will investigate the case for the Department of Education.
The incidents allegedly took place between 1992 and 1993 at the prep school for Campbell College but were not made public until May 1999.
The inquiry, which is to be held in private, will be filed with the Government next January.
(mb/sp)
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