Prime Time Reporter
When he was eight years old, James Sugrue was fostered out to live on a farm with an elderly couple and their adult son in Kilgarvan, Co Kerry.
James and his two brothers – Michael and David – had been abandoned by their mother at the County Home in Killarney in 1959. Their father was in London for work.
Over the course of several years, James and Michael were abused, isolated and worked like slaves. We are the forgotten children, James, who is now 69 years old, told Prime Time.
Tens of thousands of children were were fostered out, or boarded out , in a system arranged by the State, according to Prof Conor O Mahony, the Special Rapporteur on Child Protection.