Care worker abused 12-year-old boy in state institution

A CARE WORKER who habitually abused a 12-year-old boy in an institution brought the child to a cabbage patch late at night and told him he would be buried there if he informed anyone of the abuse, the High Court heard yesterday.

On one occasion when the child returned from attending a school doctor, having complained of rectal bleeding, the careworker was waiting with a hurley in his hand and pulled it across the child’s face, breaking his nose.

Solicitor Martin Hayden outlined these and other incidents which befell Raymond Noctor, aged 45, of Leinster Crescent, Dublin Road, Carlow, who has brought an action against the State, the Minister for Education, St Joseph’s Industrial School, Kilkenny, the South Eastern Health Board and the Minister for Health.