NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
BY CLAIRE WILLIAMSON – 27 NOVEMBER 2014
A former teacher described as “full of demonic evil” at a children’s care home has denied sexually assaulting a pupil in the shower.
He was giving evidence at the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA) in Banbridge, which is currently examining alleged ill-treatment and sex abuse at Rubane House, Co Down.
He was questioned about the discipline procedures in the school.
“There was a reward and debit system. If they behaved well they got points. That was the essence of it,” he said.
The inquiry was set up in 2013 to investigate child abuse at 13 residential institutions over a 73-year period up until 1995.
When asked had he ever heard the boys discussing any sexual abuse allegations, he said he only heard them “slagging each other off about having different orientations”.
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