NORTHERN IRELAND
Irish Independent
Victim of paedophile Brendan Smyth: ‘I still don’t know where the pictures are that he took of my body’
Louise Kelly
One of the victims who was “violated, raped, abused and humiliated” by Irish priest Brendan Smyth has said that the paedophile “will never be dead to her”.
“I have flashbacks, I get triggers and sometime there’s no warning,” Loreto, who was previously known as Samantha, spoke under her real name on the Pat Kenny show this morning.
“He’ll never be dead, when you’ve s**t like this going on on television, all these inquires going on and everything. It’s more real, it’s always going to be there.
“I still don’t know where those pictures are that Brendan Smyth took of my body. Who has seen them? Have they been published?
The comments, taken in a pre-recorded interview earlier this morning, come following a number of revelations emerging from the Historical Institutional Abuse (HIA) inquiry.
Smyth was convicted of 117 indecent assaults against 41 children across Ireland. He died in prison in 1997 after a heart attack.
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