IRELAND
One in Four
A RETIRED Department of Education school inspector told the High Court yesterday he had received a short letter from a parish priest concerning a Franciscan Brother who was accused of interfering with a number of girls at a primaryAbuse Tracker School in Galway.
He was giving evidence in a case in which a man in his early 40s is suing the Franciscan Order and the State for damages arising from the alleged sexual abuse at the school which he claims occurred about 250 times between 1969 and 1972.
The allegations of abuse are being made against former Franciscan Brother John Hannon (65) who was released from prison on October last after serving a 10-year sentence on indecent assault charges in relation to other children.