UNITED KINGDOM
International Business Times
By Shane Croucher
July 23, 2015
It has been closed for over 30 years after a child sex abuse scandal broke in the early 1980s, but the grubby tale of Kincora Boys Home in Belfast, Northern Ireland, is once again dirtying the news agenda – with more details emerging about who was involved and what they did.
Kincora was supposed to be a haven for boys aged 15 to 18 from troubled backgrounds, including those most at risk of abuse. But for some of the 168 who passed over its threshold, the experience was one of being tossed from the furnace into the fires of a man-made hell.
Now new British government files on Kincora have surfaced suggesting it may have been connected to the trafficking of boys for abuse to England, in particular the notorious Elm Guest House and Dolphin Square properties in London.
The files have been handed to Northern Irish authorities investigating historical abuse amid explosive allegations of a Westminster child sex ring with links right to the top of the establishment.
Those named in Cabinet Office papers in connection with the claims are former members of the Thatcher and Heath administrations, including Thatcher’s former permanent secretary Sir Peter Morrison, home secretary Leon Brittan, ex-Northern Ireland secretary Sir William van Straubenzee and the diplomat and MI6 spook Sir Peter Hayman. All are now dead, thus unable to defend themselves against any allegations of wrongdoing.
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