NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
Editor’s viewpoint
July 27 2017
The inquiry set up to investigate the abuse of children in Northern Ireland’s state and church-run institutions was comprehensive and detailed in its recommendations. No one could deny, even on a cursory reading of the report, that it presented a humane and just response to the suffering that children had suffered at the hands of evil predators.
Yet it is a report which is gathering dust at Stormont. The victims, as former First Minister Peter Robinson said, were again being let down by political stalemate.
His comments came as the funeral of one of the abused, Billy McConville, took place.
He, like a reported 60 other victims, have gone to their graves never getting the recompense that his traumatic experiences demanded and which were recognised by the Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry.
Like the victims of the Troubles, the abused children – some of whom were shipped out to Australia where they were violated – are growing old, hoping that they will one day get the full justice they demand and deserve.
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