NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
A former resident of Kincora Boys Home has described how he was taken out of the care home and introduced to other men for sex at hotels.
The children’s home, in east Belfast, was the subject of a high-profile child sex abuse scandal in the 1980s.
Richard Kerr was among the young residents who were abused. He was sent to live there in 1975, when he was 14.
In a new BBC Spotlight programme, he has given an account that questions the outcome of past Kincora investigations.
Three senior staff were jailed in 1981 for abusing 11 boys in their care at the home.
Those convicted were the warden Joe Mains, his assistant Raymond Semple and Kincora’s housefather, William McGrath.
However, previous police investigations and a public inquiry into the scandal found there was no evidence of a paedophile ring connected to Kincora.
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