The lawyer representing two boys who claim to have been sexually abused by their school caretaker has “received instructions to initiate civil proceedings in the case,” according to The Post.ie. The lawyer, Patrick J Sweeney, claims that he will be suing Patrick Ferry, the alleged abuser, as well at the owners of the school, Ardscoil Mhuire, that hired him.
He’s claiming that both the school owners and the health board knew of Ferry’s status as a serial rapists, yet they for some reason continued to hire him and expose him to children. Due to an agreement between the Concos and the Garda, the police force, all Irish language school employees must be checked out before hiring. Thus, Ferry should have never been hired in the first place.
Upon learning that the school continued to hire such a man, Minister for Justice Alan Shatter ordered an explanation as to how exactly Ferry continued to be able to have access and abuse the children.
Chairman of Concos Gearóid Brosnacháin was reported saying, “This agreement, as I understand it, applied to every single person who worked at a school, including bus driver, caretaker, teacher and anyone else who had unsupervised access to children at any time." Ferry’s access was unsupervised, and he has just recently been given an 18 year sentence for the rape and assault of four boys at the school between 1990-2005. and before that he was convicted in 2002 of assaulting a children twenty-something years prior, according to the Post.
The operator of the school, Gweedore-based Irish college Coláiste Cholmcille, was asked to step down from Concos, which is a representative body for Irish language school, which Ardscoil Mhuire prides itself in being.
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Read more:
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Switch to the desktop site to post a comment.monaghanjack | Jul 26, 2011, 09:55 AM EDT
It seems that many Catholic Church supporters do not take the "child abuse" very seriously. I attended Rannafast in County Donegal back in the 1950's & there was "sexual abuse" then at schools teaching the Irish language. Nothing apart from the sentence on Ferry seems to have happened since then yet there were several well-known child abusers working at these schools. In my time there we were forbidden to speak in English yet the sexual abuse continued unpunished. I am an enthusiastic Irish speaker yet I cannot understand how this can happen. It seems that speaking English is more of a misdemeanor than abusing cildren. For those wishing to see a child-abuser the anti-English faction seems favourite for this.