RTE Prime Time viewers have praised a guest for his bravery as he spoke about his experience of abuse by the Christian Brothers.
The topic of clerical sex abuse was covered on the show on Tuesday as it was revealed that victims face a “new nightmare when they try to sue the Christian Brothers”. RTE reports that suing the Order is proving to be a nightmare because the Christian Brothers have allegedly used a technicality in the law to halt child abuse victims from successfully winning a case inj the courts.
In 2017, the Supreme Court ruled that because a religious order was not a corporate body, it could not be sued itself. So unless it put forward a defendant to represent it, victims must take a case against every brother who was a member of the Order at the time of the abuse.
