‘St Ninian’s paedophiles destroyed our lives – they should have got life behind bars’: Victim of child abuse school hits out

SCOTLAND
Daily Record

12 AUG 2016

BY PAUL O’HARE

DAVE SHARP endured hell at the school run by the Catholic order and says the sentences handed down to Priest John Farrell and teacher Paul Kelly today were not enough.

A VICTIM of historical child abuse today blasted the sentences handed down to two paedophile teachers at a residential school run by a Catholic order.

Priest John Farrell and teacher Paul Kelly were jailed for a total of 15 years for brutalising young boys at St Ninian’s in Falkland, Fife, in the 70s and 80s.

But Dave Sharp, who endured hell at the school run by the Christian Brothers, said the men should have been caged for longer.

Dave said: “Child abuse on this scale should carry a life sentence.

“To destroy somebody’s life as a child should not be treated the same as burgling a house or robbing a bank.

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