ALLEGED VICTIM TESTIFIES IN GALWAY CHRISTIAN BROTHER TRIAL

Date Published: 16-Jul-2008

A man whose father lost their family home to a neighbour in a game of cards, has alleged he was one of six boys sexually abused by a Christian Brother after being sent to a Galway school when eight years old.The man told Dublin Circuit Criminal Court that he was made leave the school weeks before he was due to sit the Group Cert in 1974, because he threatened the Brother with a glass bottle and warned him not to come near him anymore.The 72-year-old accused is pleading NOT guilty to 35 counts of indecently assaulting six pupils between 1967 and 1973 when they were residents at the Galway school.