NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
By Claire O’Boyle
PUBLISHED
21/01/2017
Hundreds of victims of historical abuse should each receive compensation of up to £100,000, an inquiry has said.
Crimes against children were widespread at State, church and charity-run homes between 1922 and 1995, with Catholic Church-run facilities the worst offenders, the long-awaited Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry report found.
As well as substantial State-funded compensation, victims should be offered a “wholehearted and unconditional” government apology for spectacular failures in their care, it said.
Sir Anthony Hart, who chaired the four-year inquiry, stressed that mistakes made by authorities directly enabled abusers to carry on ruining children’s lives, even after their cruel and often depraved behaviour had been identified.
“There was evidence of sexual, physical and emotional abuse, neglect and unacceptable practices across the institutions and homes examined,” the inquiry chairman said.
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