{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/65670352d7b5d40012be7324/6aa01d624fa142971fa193d4?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The ‘Hen House Boy’: 70 years on from the story of neglect which shocked NI ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/65670352d7b5d40012be7324/1788878164551-ca1fd7f3-c8fb-4a5c-be71-8c654576079a.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>In September 1956 a Crossgar schoolboy made a shocking discovery after peering into a hen house and locking eyes with a child. The eyes belonged to seven-year-old Kevin Halfpenny – but he has been better known ever since as ‘the hen house boy’.</p><p><br></p><p>Robbed of human interaction – he seemed to have learned his behavior from the chickens around him. His widowed mother Margaret Halfpenny was arrested and pleaded guilty to neglect.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>70 years later, the heartbreaking story has been surrounded by folklore.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Olivia Peden is joined by Belfast Telegraph Journalist Kurtis Reid.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p>","author_name":"Belfast Telegraph"}