NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
The Stormont Executive is committed to finding a way to ensure abuse allegations that fall outside the remit of Northern Ireland’s on-going judge-led inquiry are addressed, Martin McGuinness has said.
Clerical abuse victims and some former residents of Magdalene laundry-type institutions in the region have demanded to know why the crimes inflicted on them are not being examined by the Stormont commissioned investigation headed by retired judge Sir Anthony Hart.
The Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry, which is currently gathering victim testimony, is examining alleged child abuse perpetrated inside residential institutions from 1922 to 1995.
However, the probe’s remit does not cover abuse inflicted on victims who were over 18 when they were inside residential facilities, such as woman forced into Magdalene-style laundries, or clerical abuse committed outside of an institutional setting.
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