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12/03/2012
Abuse Survivors Meet Cardinal Sean Brady
The Northern Ireland Survivors and Victims of Institutional Abuse group (Savia) are meeting Catholic primate Cardinal Sean Brady.
They are seeking guarantees of his total co-operation with the forthcoming abuse inquiry in Northern Ireland.
It is the first time that Cardinal Sean Brady has met the group of survivors.
Officials from the religious congregations which ran institutions at the centre of the claims of physical, sexual and psychological abuse and neglect are also in attendance.
Margaret McGuckin, a member of the survivor's group, was abused at the Nazareth Sisters orphanage in Belfast from the age of three.
She said: "This has been a long and tortuous route for some survivors and victims, re-awakening and reliving memories that were nightmares for some."
She also said they would be asking Cardinal Brady to apply pressure on religious orders to co-operate.
This meeting comes before an inquiry which will consider allegations dating back to 1945.
(LB/GK)
They are seeking guarantees of his total co-operation with the forthcoming abuse inquiry in Northern Ireland.
It is the first time that Cardinal Sean Brady has met the group of survivors.
Officials from the religious congregations which ran institutions at the centre of the claims of physical, sexual and psychological abuse and neglect are also in attendance.
Margaret McGuckin, a member of the survivor's group, was abused at the Nazareth Sisters orphanage in Belfast from the age of three.
She said: "This has been a long and tortuous route for some survivors and victims, re-awakening and reliving memories that were nightmares for some."
She also said they would be asking Cardinal Brady to apply pressure on religious orders to co-operate.
This meeting comes before an inquiry which will consider allegations dating back to 1945.
(LB/GK)
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