‘You have wrecked my life … my family are victims’

SOME of Gustav Dahm’s victims and their families were in court yesterday and gave harrowing accounts of the effects the abuse had on them.

One young man told Dahm in his statement: “You have wrecked my life … my family are also victims. My mother feels she has left me down and tries to take partial blame. I can’t get out of my head what you have done to me.”

Continuing, the victim said he had nightmares and had undergone a personality change.