Victims of abuse at state-run institutions ‘forgotten about’, says campaigner Victims of abuse at state-run institutions feel forgotten about, a Stormont committee has heard.
“I’ve had members of my group come to me and say things like, ‘Whiteabbey Training School, no-one knows about us’, and other training schools, Rathgael Training School, Millisle Borstal, Hydebank, different places, just simply forgotten about.
Mr Glass was also critical of a public apology to victims and survivors of historical institutional abuse issued in 2022 by Stormont ministers in the then absence of a first and deputy first minister.
“Most people that know about institutional childhood abuse think about the Catholic Church, they don’t think about the state, what the state have done, and we feel like we’re forgotten about.
The inquiry found evidence of violent and sexual abuse at a number of state-run institutions, including the former Millisle Borstal in Co Down and Kincora Boys’ Home in east Belfast.
