Saturday, April 2, 2016

Kincora victims take legal action over paedophile psychiatrist failures


VICTIMS of abuse at Kincora boys' home are taking legal action following fresh claims of state failures over a paedophile psychiatrist in Belfast.

A new academic study highlights that Dr Morris Fraser was allowed to continue working with children after being convicted of child abuse in the 1970s.

Fraser was a senior psychiatric registrar at the Royal Victoria Hospital's child guidance clinic, and a published author on the impact of the Troubles on children.

A new study, by Dublin academic Dr Niall Meehan, examines alleged failures by the authorities that enabled Fraser to continue working.

It claims the RUC, Metropolitan Police and General Medical Council (GMC) withheld important information about the child abuser from the public.  (more...)


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