'They shattered my soul. They killed my soul': Three victims recall abuse by Scout leaders

The horror of being sexually abused as a child by a notorious scout leader has been revealed by three of his victims, who were so traumatised that they struggled with suicidal thoughts and substance abuse into their adult lives.

'They shattered my soul. They killed my soul': Three victims recall abuse by Scout leaders

The horror of being sexually abused as a child by a notorious scout leader has been revealed by three of his victims, who were so traumatised that they struggled with suicidal thoughts and substance abuse into their adult lives.

Their abuser, former scout leader David O’Brien, evaded justice while continuing to have access to children for decades by moving between the Scouting Association of Ireland and the Catholic Boy Scouts of Ireland in the 1970s and 1980s.

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