NORTHERN IRELAND
The Irish Sun
By Adam Higgins
7th May 2017
A DEFENCE Forces veteran who suffered terrible abuse in a boys home has told how he fears some survivors will not live long enough to see justice done.
Patrick O’Rourke, now in his seventies, says political upheaval in the North has prevented a vital report being published.
He relived the horrors of his childhood when he told the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry of the sexual and physical abuse he suffered at the Termonbacca Home for Boys in Derry.
But with negotiations to restore a government in Stormont, dragging on, and further delayed by the UK snap General Election, he fears some of the older survivors will pass away without seeing justice.
The Stormont impasse means the Inquiry report has still not been presented to the Northern Ireland assembly and survivors must continue their wait for a formal apology.
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