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By ELLYN MARKS
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BRONX, NY (PIX11)— More than two decades after graduating from Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx, two men claim they were sexually abused by the Dean of Discipline, Brother John Justin O’Connor.
“Two to three times a week he’d single you out in class or put you in detention, then have his way with you and terrorize you,” said a now 41-year-old man who claims he was molested by Brother O’Connor for two years after he entered the high school in 1985.
Classmate Ernie Sierra, 40, said he too was abused by Brother O’Connor.
“I was afraid every day that I came to school,” said Sierra. “We can no longer turn a deaf ear. There comes a time when silence is absolutely a betrayal.”
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