A CLOSE associate of child sex monster Michael Ferry has insisted he is not a child abuser.
The man – who we can’t name – confirmed he was the subject of child sex abuse allegations in the mid-1990s.
Six boys, mostly aged 10 and 11, made claims against the man in 1994 but the DPP decided not to prosecute.
Two boys of similar age made the same allegations two years later. Gardai investigated and the DPP decided not to prosecute.
Confronted by donegaldaily.com yesterday, the man said: “I am not a paedophile. Allegations were made against me in the 1990s by five or six boys and they were not proven against me. No charges ever came to my door and I was exonerated by the Board of Management at the school.”
Asked if he was insisting that boys at the school where he taught had made up the allegations against him, he said: “Yes. They were erroneous.”
In relation to the Ferry case, he insisted: “Words cannot describe my abhorrence at what happened.”
