A former Texas congressman said he was sexually abused at a children's ranch he lived at during the 1960s.

“I had been sexually abused by boys, by some of the older boys,” former Rep. Bill Sarpalius (D-Texas) told the Amarillo Globe-News on Friday, referring to the Cal Farley’s Boys Ranch, which is near Amarillo.

“It was some big boys that were in the dairy barn, and they took me into the feed room, and that’s where it happened,” he continued. “It was a back room, where they kept the cow feed.”

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The ranch, which looks to support at-risk children, currently supports 250 boys and girls ages 5 to 18.

The former congressman said he experienced physical punishment at the ranch, which was a location often picked by judges to send violent youth offenders.

“They had about half the kids who committed violent crimes and half of the kids came from places that had no home, like me,” the congressman said.

Sarpalius said he does not believe abuses still take place at the ranch.

The former congressman is not the only person to have reported abuse at the facility, according to the Texas publication.

Other allegations of abuse were published by The Guardian and the Austin-based nonprofit Child-Friendly Faith Project on Wednesday.

Sarpalius came forward after the report was published.

The ranch's president and CEO Dan Adams apologized in a statement.

“For those who left Boys Ranch having experienced abuse of any form, I am truly sorry, both as the leader of this organization and as a man,” Adams said.

“It is for these reasons that regulatory oversight and strength-based models of care in this field evolved, and Cal Farley’s strives to be a leader in observing both,” he said.

The reports come as women and men across the country have come forward to accuse influential figures in various industries of sexual misconduct.

“As we have seen with the #MeToo movement, when prominent, well-known individuals acknowledge that they have been victims of abuse, it empowers survivors who have previously been afraid to tell their stories out of shame or fear they will not be believed or they will be dismissed or rebuked,” the nonprofit's founder Janet Heimlich said.

“Many Cal Farley survivors, as children, tried to speak out and tell adults they were being abused or had witnessed abuse, only to be rejected and sometimes punished,” she continued. “We are grateful to Mr. Sarpalius for his courage and compassion."