‘Stripped and abused’ on first day at Kincora

A man has described being stripped naked and sexually assaulted during his time at the former Kincora Boys' Home.

He broke down in tears as he told the Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry about what he suffered when he was just 14 years old.

"I never had a sex education and this is what I had to deal with for four years,” he said.

The man, known at the inquiry as HIA199/R3, spent his entire childhood in care and had three separate stints at Kincora during the 1960s and 1970s.

He left shortly after turning 18.

On his first day after being admitted to the east Belfast facility he said he was taken into a bathroom and assaulted by warden Joseph Mains, during what was supposed to be a medical examination.

Mains later pleaded guilty to two counts of sex abuse against the boy.

"The first thing he did to me was he took me into that bathroom, he stripped me naked, made a comment about my private parts and started to fondle me," the man said.

"That was on my first day at 14."