NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
Allegations that a man in a police uniform sexually abused a boy from Kincora have been heard by a public inquiry.
Graphic accounts of the litany of abuse carried out by three male staff members were also given to the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) Inquiry which is examining claims of a high ranking paedophile ring at the east Belfast boys home during the 1970s.
One victim, known only as KIN238, who was at Kincora for three weeks in 1977, claimed to have bee n taken to another property and abused by warden Joseph Mains, house master William McGrath and an unknown man in a police uniform.
After one incident he vomited, the inquiry was told.
The boy ran away and did not speak out until he told his girlfriend in 1999. He went to police after 2000, it emerged.
The HIA also heard about alleged violent gang rapes and of boys being pulled from their beds and returning drunk.
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