NORTHERN IRELAND
Irish Times
Gerry Moriarty in Banbridge
Two men have said they were sexually abused as children by a visiting British soldier at a residential home run by Anglican missionaries, the North’s Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry has been told. Both men are now resident in Australia.
One of the witnesses said that the soldier treated those he allegedly abused as “just pieces of meat” at the Manor House Children’s Home near Lisburn, Co Antrim during the 1960s.
That witness who gave evidence by video link on Wednesday said he did not complain at the time because “as children we were told never to open our mouths and that children should be seen and not heard”.
He said that he entered the home in 1964 after his family, which was originally from Northern Ireland, returned from Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He said his parents had divorced and his father, who seldom visited, was given custody.
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