AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
JOANNE MCCARTHY
July 1, 2016
HE was the altar boy from a devout Catholic family who wanted to be a brilliant engineer like his father.
He stood in court on Friday, hands shaking and fragile, to tell a judge about life after he was sexually abused for two years by a Marist Brother, and how 20 years of mail sits unopened in plastic bags that fill his house.
He can’t stand paper after Brother Dominic, whose real name is Darcy O’Sullivan, walked the classroom decades ago and sexually abused boys as they sat doing school work, in view of other boys.
“Brother Dominic presented as very confident and urbane but would quickly descend to a deep and barely suppressed anger,” his victim told Judge Kate Traill during a sentencing hearing at Sydney District Court after O’Sullivan, 78, entered guilty pleas to sexual offences against eight victims.
The offences occurred at Marist Brothers Hamilton in the 1970s and at Casino in the early 1980s.
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