Boy's body to be exhumed in child abuse probe

Detectives investigating alleged child abuse at a reform school during the 1960s and 1970s were today exhuming the body of a 13-year-old boy.

Police suspect the boy, who died in 1970 and was buried in Kilkenny, could have been assaulted while attending the Christian Brothers’ Letterfrack Reformatory School in Connemara, Co Galway.