IRELAND
Irish Times
Paul Cullen
The patient in the St Patrick’s Mental Health Services case was seven or eight when he was sexually abused by an elderly cleric in his home town.
The abuse took place up to five times over the course of a summer. “I can recall trying to get out of the room. He had an old-fashioned walking stick which he used to stop me leaving,” the victim said.
He told no one of his experience at the time. The cleric died a few years later, in the mid-1960s.
The man got married in his 20s but experienced severe facial pain during sex. From 1980, he attended a doctor who diagnosed anxiety and an obsessive personality and prescribed benzodiazepines. Now in his 60s, he has been on tranquillisers ever since.
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