NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
Editorial
The Kincora sex scandal has been in the public domain for almost 40 years and still the young boys who were abused there have been denied full justice. No one still believes that the three staff members at the east Belfast home who were jailed in 1981 for crimes against 11 youngsters were the only abusers.
In fact, they might now be viewed as the scapegoats for a much wider paedophile ring that reaches into the higher echelons of the British Establishment.
Recently released papers from the Home Office show that allegations by a former intelligence officer who served in Northern Ireland that the Kincora scandal had been hushed up by the intelligence services of the time had been known and noted at the very heart of the Westminster Government.
The papers also mention by name Sir Maurice Oldfield, head of both MI5 and MI6 security agencies, who a boy abused at the home now says he remembers meetingthere. Others mentioned in the papers include two former Government ministers, a former civil servant and a former diplomat.
Other allegations which have surfaced recently include claims that boys were taken from the home to residences in England where they were abused before being flown back to Northern Ireland.
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