Victims tell of lives destroyed by a Christian Brother

Dark stories of young lives wrecked by a Christian Brother during the reign of sexual terror he waged on primary school boys unfolded at Limerick Circuit Court yesterday.

Judge Tom O’Donnell described the damage caused by former Christian Brother James Treacy as being like a nuclear fallout.

During his years as a religious order teacher, James, also known as Seamus, Treacy, now with an address at Ashton Close, Swords, Co Dublin, ruled by fear and sexual violence. Yesterday, he came face to face with some of his victims in a crowded courtroom.