Ex-Christian brother charged with indecent assault

A former Christian Brother has gone on trial in Cork on charges of indecently assaulting a primary school boy in the 1970s. The judge and jury were told yesterday of the complainant’s nightmares of ghosts of men in black.

Louis Morgan, 66, who is originally from Portlaoise, Co Laois, and now lives at Glenmarian Road, Portlaoise, denies four counts of indecent assault. He was put on trial before Judge David Riordan and a jury of eight men and four women on four charges of indecently assaulting a boy aged eight or nine in the mid-1970s at the Christian Brothers primary school on Blarney Street, Cork.

Detective gardaí James O’Reilly and Kevin O’Donnell met the accused in Dublin in 2012 and interviewed him about the allegations put by the complainant who is now a middle-aged man.