NORTHERN IRELAND
The Guardian
Press Association
Tuesday 7 June 2016
A former resident from Kincora boys’ home has described being stripped naked and sexually assaulted on his first day at the Belfast facility.
The man, given the cipher HIA199/R3, broke down in tears after telling the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry, how he was singled out and abused over four years.
He said: “When I came to Kincora I was an an innocent 14-year-old boy. I never had a sex education and this is what I had to deal with for four years.”
The witness, who spent his entire childhood in care, had three separate stints at Kincora during the 1960s and 1970s. He left shortly after turning 18.
On the day he was admitted from Purdysburn hospital, he said he was taken into a bathroom and assaulted by warden Joseph Mains during what was supposed to be a medical examination, the HIA was told.
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