NORTHERN IRELAND
BBC News
Orphans sent to a County Down home were exposed to abuse by boys who “came through the justice or welfare systems”, a former resident told the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry.
He described a “toxic mix” of “orphaned boys and streetwise boys”.
He said sexual activity at Rubane House was “very common” among boys.
But the man, now in his 50s, said his general experience at the Ards peninsula boys home had been “very, very good”.
The witness was at Rubane in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
He told the enquiry he had been sexually abused by other boys.
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