NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry: Probe in Australia return to quiz more witnesses
BY DEBORAH MCALEESE – 20 MAY 2014
A team from the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry is to travel to Australia next month to speak to a “significant” number of alleged victims.
The team, including inquiry chairman, retired judge Sir Anthony Hart, will examine the operation of a child migrant scheme involving the transfer of children from institutions in Northern Ireland to institutions throughout Australia.
This visit, the second to Australia by members of the inquiry team, will form the second module of hearings, which are due to commence at the start of September.
At the end of September the inquiry hopes to pursue investigations on the former De La Salle Boys’ Home, Rubane House, in Kircubbin, Co Down.
The inquiry is investigating abuse claims against children’s residential institutions in Northern Ireland between 1922 and 1995.
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