NORTHERN IRELAND
Irish Examiner
Two children’s homes run by the Catholic Church will be investigated first as part of a major inquiry into institutional abuse in the North, it has been revealed.
St Joseph’s Home, Termonbacca and Nazareth House Children’s Home in Bishop Street, both of which were run by the Sisters of Nazareth in Derry, are among 13 residential facilities currently under investigation.
Anthony Hart, chairman of the inquiry, told the third public hearing in Belfast that investigations into a number of other institutions had been dropped because the small number of allegations or allegations of a less serious nature could not be regarded as amounting to systemic failings.
He said: “In those cases we have decided that at the present time we would not be justified in subjecting the institutions to further investigation, and we have informed them. However, I want to emphasise that we have made it clear to those institutions that this decision will be reviewed if further allegations come to light at a later stage of our investigations. If that should happen, then we have reserved the right to re-open our investigations.”
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