Stormont report highlights ‘rampant' abuse at Catholic home

Sexual abuse was rampant at a children’s home in the North run by a Catholic order of brothers, a former senior police officer has said.

Stormont report highlights ‘rampant' abuse at Catholic home

Sexual abuse was rampant at a children’s home in the North run by a Catholic order of brothers, a former senior police officer has said.

Around a fifth of boys at Rubane House in Co Down were subjected to sexual or physical abuse, according to a public inquiry, equal to if not worse than that at another notorious home, Kincora in east Belfast.

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