NORTHERN IRELAND
Irish Tmes
Dan Keenan
Wed, Feb 26, 2014
A witness to the Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry has broken down as she recalled a conversation she had with another person who had been in care the day before he took his own life.
The witness, who wishes to remain anonymous, was taken into care at various times in the 1970s at St Joseph’s home at Termonbacca in Derry, run by the Poor Sisters of Nazareth.
She cried openly as she told Senior Counsel to the inquiry Christine Smith QC that the man whom she knew from her time at the home told her he had been raped after he had been transferred to another care home in Kircubben, Co Down.
“He came to see me the day before he hung himself,” she told the inquiry.
Recovering her composure she went on: “[HE] told me the day before he committed suicide that he had been anally raped in Rubane House.”
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