NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
29 MAY 2013
Victims groups have stepped up pressure on the Stormont Executive to widen its historical institutional abuse inquiry.
Clerical abuse victims and former residents of Magdalene laundry-type institutions in Northern Ireland said there was no justification for their exclusion from the investigation headed by retired judge Sir Anthony Hart and have launched a joint campaign calling for the remit to be immediately extended.
Michael Connolly, a victim of clerical child sex abuse in Fermanagh in the early 1970s, said: “The Northern Ireland inquiry into institutional child abuse is very welcome but it does nothing for me and the many other victims of clerical abuse who were molested in locations outside children’s homes or who suffered as adult women in Magdalene laundry-style homes. Our abuse was no less and our call for justice is no less deserving of being heard.”
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