NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph

10 NOVEMBER 2014

Victims of historical institutional child abuse in Northern Ireland should receive reparations, a minister in the powersharing administration said.

A public inquiry has received harrowing testimony from those who lived in residential homes run by Catholic religious orders.

A panel headed by a retired judge is holding an extensive probe into claims of sexual, physical and emotional abuse against young children made by hundreds of former residents who have contacted the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry.

Stormont junior minister Jennifer McCann said: “I would certainly like to see some sort of reparations made in terms of those people that have went through the inquiry.”

Memorials, compensation and measures to prevent a repeat of abuse have been discussed by witnesses to the inquiry chaired by Sir Anthony Hart.