NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
A paedophile at the Kincora boys’ home in Northern Ireland tried to get a child to have sex with an animal, a witness has told a public inquiry.
Senior care worker William McGrath was convicted of abuse at the notorious east Belfast institution and imprisoned in 1981.
He wanted to blackmail the victims if they later moved into political life, r etired British Army officer Sergeant Q told the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry.
Sergeant Q said an alleged victim told him: “Look, to give you an idea of McGrath’s perversions, he tried to get me to do it with animals.”
Inquiry counsel Christine Smith QC said: “That was something that stuck with you over the years because … while it might seem outrageous today, certainly seemed even more outrageous back then.”
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