NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
By Suzanne Breen
PUBLISHED
24/05/2016
Victims of historical child abuse plan to hold a dramatic picket at Stormont if the new Executive doesn’t move imminently to pay them compensation.
They are making an emotional appeal directly to First Minister Arlene Foster “as a woman and a mother” to take action to end their trauma.
The DUP is refusing to address the compensation issue until the inquiry into Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) sends its report to the Executive next year.
The victims have bought baby and young children’s clothes and plan to stand outside Parliament Buildings holding up the items.
Margaret McGuckin of Survivors and Victims of Institutional Abuse (SAVIA) said they were “sick of hearing empty, well-meaning words” from politicians and wanted compensation for what they had suffered.
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