‘Screaming was pointless,’ survivors tell of school abuse by Christian Brothers

‘The Christian Brothers were meant to be men of God – a religious order within the Catholic Church.
At their St Ninian’s school in Fife, though, two of the Brothers were men of unspeakable cruelty who stole innocence from children and left the deepest scars.
John Farrell and Paul Kelly were today convicted of 11 counts of sexual and physical abuse against six children in their care. Children as young as 11. The pair were doing it with impunity through the 1970s and 80s.
Survivors of their crimes told me how they did it.’
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