A man who was shipped to Canada in the 1940s under the child migrant programme has described the experience as a “living hell”. Edinburgh-born Roddy Mackay, who waived his right
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The Executive Office in Northern Ireland is encouraging responses to a consultation on draft legislation intended to help the victims and survivors of historical institutional abuse. The department has published
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Survivors of abuse at children’s homes across Northern Ireland have criticised government proposals on compensation as “derisory”. Draft legislation to establish a compensation scheme for victims will come on Monday
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More than a quarter of people who alleged they were abused at a children’s home said they had told staff about the attacks while they were still in care, an
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A former football coach has been jailed for six years after being convicted of historical child sex offences. James Torbett – who was involved in setting up Celtic Boys Club
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A children’s home worker accused of sexually assaulting boys in his care used his connections with Manchester United to “buy a form of silence” from his victims, a court has
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A man who was sexually abused at a children’s home in the 1970s has spoken of his belief a paedophile ring may have been operating inside the facility. David Whelan,
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A child was force-fed to the point where his mouth would bleed during a time in care that was “hell itself”, an inquiry has heard. A witness also told how
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A man who spent two years in hospital after being subjected to cold baths for wetting his bed in a children’s home has described the institution as a “prison camp”.
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A former resident of a children’s home has told an inquiry that suffering abuse “became a way of life” for him at the institution. The man described how his house
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