The Journey 156. Richard Kerr: Government-Protected Child Abuse in Belfast

Also with Father Sean McManus and Author Chris Moore

Publisher Kris Millegan speaks with Richard Kerr, Father Sean McManus (of the IrishNationalCaucus.org), and Chris Moore (author of THE KINCORA SCANDAL: Political Cover-Up and Intrigue in Ulster) to discuss the sex scandal in Ireland that went far beyond the Kincora Boys’ Home in east Belfast, where dozens of boys were abused over three decades. (Children were abused in government operations, and the British government continues to cover it up.)

“Richard Kerr was five years old when he was sent to Williamson House (ages 5-14) on Christmas night 1966. Then he was transferred to Kincora House (ages 14-18).

“Richard’s abuse started at the age of 5 at the hands of house managers. He was spirited out of Belfast to the US by his handlers in May 1979 (aged 17-18) via London … to ensure he was not available to answer questions in the developing police inquiries around the sex scandal known as Kincora. [Richard: “The American who helped with [my] immigration was Roy Cohn.”]

“Most of Richard’s abuse was arranged by house managers in hotels and safe houses outside of Kincora. He was pimped out to businessmen, lawyers, politicians, doctors. These clients were then blackmailed into providing intelligence during the war in Northern Ireland. Most of the other kids in these homes were abused internally by the house managers.”

Richard knew many victims who committed suicide.

Father Sean McManus is the founder and president of the IrishNationalCaucus.org. “McManus became Britain’s nemesis in America, the driving force that would eventually erode Britain’s influence within the U.S. Government.” (American Policy and Northern Ireland: A Saga of Peacebuilding, Professor Joseph E. Thompson, 2001.)

Chris Moore is the author of THE KINCORA SCANDAL: Political Cover-Up and Intrigue in Ulster, available at the usual sellers.

SUMMARY

Honey traps record politicians and other important people having sex with people they shouldn’t, including children, in order to blackmail and influence those important people.

Father Sean, paraphrasing: the Irish National Caucus was asked to raise Richard Kerr’s case in Congress. Most significant since Richard was a Protestant from Belfast. Very rare. They tend to support British authority. The Irish National Caucus for 50 years has raised hundreds of Catholic cases in the US Congress.

SUNDAY WORLD ARTICLE

sundayworld.com/crime/irish-crime/how-mi5-protected-child-sex-abusers-in-the-notorious-kincora-boys-home/864627602.html

HOME OF HORROR: How MI5 protected child sex abusers in the notorious Kincora Boys’ Home

Journalist Chris Moore – the author of book ‘The Kincora Scandal: Political Cover-Up and Intrigue in Ulster’ – writes about how the secret service helped cover up sex abuse.

…Kincora Boys’ Home in east Belfast, where dozens of boys were abused over three decades, has been demolished.

December 4, 2022

William McGrath’s arrival at Kincora meant things took a turn for the worse. The man who would become known as the ‘Beast of Kincora’ was already a leading religious bigot with roots buried deeply in the Orange Order and in the quasi-paramilitary group he ran called Tara.

The level of sexual terrorism at Kincora rose dramatically with his arrival but he enjoyed the protection of his two bosses, the sexual deviant warden Joe Mains and his deputy Raymond Semple.

Lord Mountbatten, uncle of the about to be newly crowned King Charles III, stands accused of crossing the Kincora threshold to enjoy the flesh of a young boy, Arthur Smyth.

END SUNDAY WORLD ARTICLE