Kincora Boys’ Home, East Belfast.
A deadline of January 31 has been set for the British government to furnish all documents on Kincora Boys’ Home to the Northern Ireland Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry.
It is alleged that children at the home were raped and abused by a paedophile ring operating at the home with the knowledge of security forces.
Henry McDonald writes:
It will be fascinating to find out if, for instance, the Kincora material includes any “smoking gun” documents; ones which prove what many have suspected for decades – that the State knew about the paedophile ring there but did nothing to protect the boys from their tormentors. Instead, of course, the security forces resorted to blackmailing the abusers in order that they spy on fellow hardline loyalists.
…Even in situations where local political figures were compromised as a result of their sexual preferences, successive Governments ensured that these people were protected from public exposure in the wider interests of stability, political progress and even the peace process itself.
This writer knows of two cases in the late-1980s and 1990s in which two politicians were about be exposed by the tabloid Press, but the State then intervened to save their reputations.
Previously: A Boys’ Home Story
(BBC)
Can’t wait for this to crack!