NORTHERN IRELAND
UTV
Published Monday, 20 October 2014
A former resident of a Catholic boys’ home has told the Historical Abuse Inquiry that he informed a priest in Derry in 1964 about the severe physical and sexual abuse which children were suffering there.
But, he said that nothing was ever done about it.
Rubane House, a former boys’ home in Kircubbin, Co Down, was run by the De La Salle Order.
Giving evidence to the inquiry on Monday, the former resident said his mother died when he was 13, but the Brothers didn’t tell them until two weeks later.
Distressed that he hadn’t been at her funeral, he ran away to visit her grave but was found by the police and brought back to Rubane.
He was summoned to the schoolhouse the next day.
There, three Brothers were waiting for him. They shaved his head without using foam, cutting his scalp.
They then held him down over a table. Choking and unable to breathe, he said they beat him.
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