NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
BY ANNA MAGUIRE – 30 MAY 2013
Excluding people who suffered clerical child abuse in Magdalene laundries and the community from a State inquiry will create “second-class victims”, it has been claimed.
Victims groups and abuse survivors have appealed to the Executive to hear their “truth” and extend the remit of the inquiry into historical institutional abuse.
In a research paper published yesterday, Amnesty International said a State inquiry into historical institutional abuse in Northern Ireland ignores people who were “molested in churches, church halls, private homes and other locations outside children’s institutions”.
It also does not take into account women who suffered abuse at the hands of religious orders in Magdalene laundry-type institutions.
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