IRELAND
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One of the ten children of Jean McConville, who was abducted and murdered by the IRA, says his family is owed an apology by the State and the church, for how they were treated after their mother’s disappearance.
Ms McConville was abducted by an IRA gang after being accused of passing information to the British army.
She was later shot in the back of the head and buried 80km from her home.
Billy McConville told Northern Ireland’s Institutional Abuse Inquiry last week that he was sexually and physically abused in care homes and wants those wrongs acknowledged.
When the IRA abducted their mother in 1972, the eldest of the ten McConville children, Helen, was 15.
The two youngest were the six-year-old twins, Billy and Jim.
The ten children were left to fend for themselves before they were taken into care, split up and dispatched to a series of institutions.
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