A man who claims he was raped and abused in a Dr Barnardos children's home yesterday broke down in as he recalled how he was allegedly forced to have sex with his sister.
Giving evidence to Belfast Crown Court the witness, now 36, claimed that Ms Sarah Jayne Margaret Hewitt sexually abused him when she bathed him.
He further claimed that when she bathed him and his sister together, "she forced me" to rape his sister.
He told Mr Gerald Simpson QC, prosecuting, that he could remember Ms Hewitt (68), producing a "small, sharp instrument" and threatening to "cut it off if I told anyone or if I was a bad boy".
Ms Hewitt, from Drain's Bay near Larne, denies 99 sex charges in relation to nine children including counts of aiding and abetting rape, indecent assault, gross indecency and child cruelty between December 1977 when she joined the Barnardos home in Macedon, Newtownabbey, until June 1981 when it closed.
Another former care worker at the home, Mr Robert George Anderson (46), with a former address at Hillhead Road in Ballycarry but who now lives in England, denies a total of 34 offences against five of the children, including rape, gross indecency, indecent assault, assault and child cruelty.
The witness also claimed that on three occasions indecent photos were taken of him after he was allegedly forced to undress and pose with Ms Hewitt.
Under cross-examination the witness admitted that he had been paid £20,000 after making a claim for compensation against the children's charity for the alleged abuse he suffered.
The case continues.