NEW YORK
Times Herald-Record
By Chris McKenna
Times Herald-Record
MOUNT MARION – At age 60, Brian O’Leary is still deeply scarred from the sexual abuse a neighbor inflicted on him more than 40 years ago when he was growing up in Saugerties.
The perpetrator lived across the street and worked at IBM with O’Leary’s father.
For five years, he repeatedly assaulted the boy in his home and his car, a string of violations that began when O’Leary was only 12 and ended when he stopped his tormentor at age 17 – because he realized how badly he wanted to kill himself.
O’Leary was so traumatized that he told no adults about the abuse then and couldn’t bring himself to tell his parents until many years later.
His abuser died in Florida in 1984, unpunished for the crimes he committed and the emotional havoc O’Leary has carried for decades.
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