JURY IN TRIAL OF GALWAY CHRISTIAN BROTHER HEARS EVIDENCE

Date Published: 16-Jul-2008

A jury in the trial of a Christian brother accused of sexually assaulting 6 boys at a Galway school in the 60s and 70s has been hearing evidence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.A now 50-year-old man is one of six former residents who claim they were sexually assaulted over a six year period by another brother.The 72-year-old accused has pleaded NOT guilty to 35 counts of indecently assaulting the boys between 1967 and 1973 when they were residents at the school. The jury has been given copies of letters, exchanged between a Christian Brother and the family of the boy who was lodged in a Galway residential school, after his father lost their family home to a neighbour in a game of cards.