IRELAND
Herald
By Alan O’Keeffe
Thursday May 03 2012
BARNADO’S chief executive Fergus Finlay was sexually and physically abused by two religious brothers when he was a boy. But his father took action.
Finlay (62) spoke publicly about the abuse for the first time to reject the notion that no-one understood what sex abuse was in the 1960s or 1970s or later.
“I knew what it was, I knew it was abuse. I told my father about it, he knew it was abuse, he knew exactly what action needed to be taken,” he said. “As far as I know, the action taken ensured no other child was abused by the same person.”
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