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Abuse survivor Simon O’Toole on 'monster’ Bill Kenneally’s death
“Hell is not the proper place for him”. Just one week after the publication of a wide-ranging report into the cover-up around one of Ireland’s most prolific and sadistic child abusers, paedophile Bill Kenneally died in prison on Thursday. Survivors estimate that Kenneally abused at least a hundred boys and potentially many more, aided by the total impunity being a member of a powerful political family conferred on him. One of those boys, Simon O’Toole, was abused by Kenneally from the age of 11. In today’s episode, he shares how he went from being a clever, engaged child to an angry, hostile…
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