Ignore the hysteria and get justice for victims of Kincora

‘Uncovering child abuse is as difficult as it is important. Damaged children need to be heard and the perpetrators dealt with, yet the police and the justice system have to be wary of witch-hunts.

Kincora-related allegations are flying all over the place. Here are a sample.

That children were abused is the firm ground which few challenge. In the 1980s, along with two of his staff, Kincora’s head, William McGrath, an extreme loyalist, was jailed for sexual assault.

But it’s been claimed for years that the three were members of a paedophile ring protected by MI5 because it wanted information about other loyalist perpetrators.’

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