IRELAND
Irish Examiner
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
A 42-year-old man who was sexually abused by a Christian Brother over a five-year period starting when he was aged 8, has been awarded €370,000 by a High Court judge.
Mr Justice Kevin Cross said the sexual abuse was of the most extreme he had seen in his career.
“He suffered severe injury which has affected him throughout his life, ” the judge said.
The man, in his evidence, said the abuse took place in a Christian Brothers’ premises in Artane, Dublin, when he had volunteered to help out with gardening. It happened in a store room; a basement; and a room which overlooked rose beds, and happened three to five times a week in the early 1980s.
The man also told how the Brother, who has since died, put his hand inside his trousers and fondled him when he visited him in a convalescent home.
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