Survivor: 'Meaningless' industrial school apology 'too little, too late'

Ray Noctor, the first person to take on the state in relation to child sexual abuse in Industrial schools. Photograph: Patrick Browne

The first man to ever take on the State in the High Court for being sexually abused in an industrial school has said the government apology by the Taoiseach to survivors is “too little too late.” 

Ray Noctor, aged 66 and from Carlow, suffered years of rape, torture and bestiality from the age of 12 to 16 at the hands of teacher David Murray at St Joseph’s Industrial school in Kilkenny.