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	Paedophile David Murray's Victims Describe Their Ordeal By Andrew Dagnell Wales on Sunday August 23, 2009 http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/08/23/paedophile-david-murray-s-victims-describe-their-ordeal-91466-24508349/ SICK David Murray's evil knew no bounds – and one person who knows that only too well is Tony Cronin. He was just nine when he was fostered, along with another boy, by Murray. Little did he know he would be subjected to a nine-year reign of terror that would end only once he was free to run away on his 18th birthday. The 36-year-old, who lives on the north Dublin coast, said: "I'd say I was abused by David Murray 500 to 600 times, around two to three times a week. Sometimes three or four times a day. "He groomed me into his living rent boy. He saw me as his favourite, I was keeping him satisfied." Fortunately, Mr Cronin has since managed to rebuild his life after living with the beast for 16 years. He is now a father of three and was awarded 45,000 euros in an out-of-court settlement. But he will never forget how Murray lived out his twisted fantasies in their family home, destroying his childhood. Mr Cronin said: "It would have started in 1982 to 1983. It was an absolute violation of childhood. "He would say later we initiated the acts. The abuse stopped with the other boy when he was 12 but it continued with me. It was carnage. "I didn't even have a chance for puberty to develop properly, my emotions, feelings... they were all taken away from me. "The abuse was so repetitive that I didn't think I was in any way different to any other child. I never, ever got a break from him." Even now, Mr Cronin remembers the abuse as though it was yesterday. He said: "His sexual frustration was heaped on me. If he was having a bad day at work, I'd suffer. "I had to live with my tormentor seven days a week, 24 hours a day. "He's still here. Sometimes I go to sleep and pray that I won't wake up. I just take one day at a time." Another innocent person to fall foul of Murray's sick ways was Raymond Noctor, 49. He was admitted to the St Joseph's Orphanage, where Murray worked, when he was just seven years old. In 2005, he was awarded a record 370,000-euro compensation after being subjected to four years of vicious sexual, physical and emotional abuse at the hands of Murray. After the conclusion of his case at Dublin's High Court, Mr Noctor said: "The actions of the state, and most particularly the Sisters of Charity, in trenchantly denying the validity of my claim over many years, heaped insult on top of injury." Murray is also believed to have had links with Welsh paedophiles, who would travel between Ireland and North Wales. A report was published in May following a 10-year investigation by Ireland's Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse. It looked at the physical and sexual abuse by Murray at the St Joseph's Orphanage. The nuns running the orphanage have since apologised to those who were abused, saying they were "ashamed, shocked and horrified" at what they had suffered. Following the publication of the Commission's report, social justice campaigner Sister Stanislaus Kennedy called on her religious order to face its financial responsibilities to the victims of institutional abuse with a "generous spirit". Sister Stanislaus also apologised for the "heinous crimes" committed against children at the order's two institutions in Kilkenny, but said she had no inkling the abuses were taking place at the time. Speaking at a Sisters of Charity conference in Dublin Castle last month, Sister Stanislaus said she lived at the convent at St Joseph's during the 1970s. But she said she did not work with the children and had no idea of the abuses being carried out by the two "cruel and ferocious paedophiles". "I did not know about abuse when I was in Kilkenny. I didn't know anybody who knew it and that is my position. There was one incident where a childcare worker told me about another man who was beating the children and I sent him to the resident manager, and I left it at that," she added. She said she felt ashamed, shocked and desperately sorry about the revelations of abuse in the order's institutions.
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