Ex-teacher sentenced to 10 further years for sex abuse

A erstwhile teacher and schoolhouse main has been sentenced to a further 10 years successful situation for humanities kid enactment abuse.

Paul Dunleavy, with an code astatine Glen Road successful Belfast, was recovered blameworthy of 36 charges of humanities intersexual abuse against erstwhile pupils successful September.

The offences were committed connected dates betwixt 1964 and 1991 portion the 89-year-old Christian Brother worked astatine 4 schools successful Belfast, Newry and Armagh.

He is already serving a situation condemnation having been convicted antecedently connected 2 abstracted occasions of intersexual offences against children successful his care.

In total, helium has been convicted of 72 counts involving 18 victims crossed 3 trials.

Dunleavy is inactive a Christian Brother contempt his convictions.

BBC News NI asked the organisation if they had a effect to his victims' calls for some an apology and clarity from them connected what they knew astir his offending, and when.

The organisation has declined to comment, but said: "The Congregation cannot remark connected matters that are the taxable of ongoing proceedings."

Two of his victims person shared their stories with BBC News NI. Both wanted to stay anonymous.

James, not his existent name, was abused portion astatine St Aidan's Primary School successful westbound Belfast.

It was the 1970s and the Troubles were raging connected the streets extracurricular the school, but the danger, helium said, laic inside.

"As I described schoolhouse for me, it was a fearfulness movie outside.

"You were moving successful arsenic they do, and each the kids tally upstairs and fastener the doors and past realise the monster is successful there."

James said schoolhouse should person been an flight from the "madness" outside.

He said for years helium tried to hide the maltreatment but struggled to cope.

"Was that the crushed wherefore I'm similar this? Full of addictions, the magnitude of jobs I've had implicit my beingness you could tally a database of them all, ever being bully astatine the commencement past self-destruct happened," helium said.

Dennis, not his existent name, was abused portion astatine the Abbey Primary School successful Newry.

He said helium inactive suffers from superior intelligence wellness issues, including self-harm and suicidal thoughts.

He hasn't told galore radical astir what happened to him, not adjacent adjacent household members.

"I grew up hating my name, however I looked, fundamentally I conscionable hated everything astir myself," Dennis said.

He has blanked a batch out.

"What it has done is fundamentally rob maine of immoderate puerility memories.

"I've flashes. My sister would speech to me, and accidental bash you retrieve this, bash you retrieve that? I tin retrieve the beatings, I tin retrieve the slaps."

The assemblage astatine this astir caller proceedings was told Paul Dunleavy was already successful situation for akin offences.

There were reporting restrictions astir the earlier trials.

The archetypal record relating to allegations against him was submitted to the PPS successful 2011.

Dunleavy's denial of the offences was "devastating" for James.

"It's arsenic if we're inactive telling lies, due to the fact that helium denied it.

He says helium has forgiven Dunleavy but it is simply a changeless process.

"To forgive him was the lone mode to get escaped of it, it's the lone mode for maine to transportation on.

"But it comes back, it doesn't past - you tin forgive him successful the greeting and privation to termination him successful the afternoon. It's a happening I person to woody with time successful and time out."

James says helium believes determination are radical who suffered astatine the hands of Dunleavy who haven't travel guardant yet. And others who haven't made it.

"l person got friends successful the graveyard implicit this, that didn't get the chance, that weren't capable to header with the intelligence load and buried themselves successful drugs and intoxicant and weren't capable to get done it."

Dennis said helium wishes helium could person done much to halt Dunleavy.

"There's a batch of guilt determination due to the fact that you did not talk up and it's lone present you're uncovering retired astir the magnitude of radical that's travel aft you," Dennis said.

"You've that guilt determination and it lives with you each day, that if you had person opened your rima and said thing possibly it would person been nipped successful the bud."

"Back successful them days priests, brothers, each of it, they could bash immoderate they wanted, they got distant with it.

"It's lone present radical are uncovering retired what they were truly like."