Limerick brother due in court on sex abuse charges
A FORMER Christian Brother is due before Limerick Circuit Court later this month charged in connection with the sexual abuse of boys at a city school in the 1960s.
The former Brother, who is now married and living in Dublin, faces 36 charges of indecent assault on dates between 1967 and 1969 at a boys secondary school where he worked as a teacher.
The alleged abuser cannot be named until he is formally arraigned before a judge at the circuit court.
The trial of the former Christian Brother comes in the wake of the shocking revelations of sexual abuse and physical violence against children in the report by The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse.
The Limerick Leader understands that the allegations against the former Christian Brother are not contained in the report, nor did he work at an industrial school implicated in the report.
About 35,000 children were placed in industrial schools and institutions up to the 1980s and more than 2,000 told the commission the horror stories of the physical and sexual abuse they suffered while there.
The Taoiseach Brian Cowen held a lengthy meeting with representatives from eight victims groups on Wednesday night and he is due to meet with the 18 religious congregations, this Thursday, which ran the institutions where he is expected to raise the issue of extra compensation for abuse victims.
Mr Cowen said that those who abused children in church-run schools must be "made amenable to the law" and held to account.
He apologised to the survivors on behalf of the Government for failing to intervene and protect them.
The Government delegation included Justice Minister Dermot Ahern, Education Minister Batt O'Keeffe and Children's Minister Barry Andrews.
The Taoiseach said the Government is committed to implementing all of the report's recommendations including erecting a monument to the victims.
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