SEX ABUSE victim Derek Mulligan has accused the directors of Coláiste Chomcille school of telling lies about their decision to allow convicted child sex abuser Michael Ferry, to work at the Irish language summer school.
He has also alleged Ferry may have been part of a wider paedophile ring operating in the Donegal area that abused children.
Mr Mulligan, who was abused as a child by Ferry, said yesterday every one of the abuse victims were sick to the stomach by the statement issued by the school yesterday.
"Stop telling us lies and stop telling us the place was unoccupied for nine months when you know it wasn't", he told RTÉ News at One.
Mr Mulligan said the head teacher at Coláiste Chomcille Donal Lynch, who was running all the colleges, was there at the time when Ferry was at the school.
“They all were there. They knew what he was capable of and he was there all the time. They are just making up excuses and we are sick of excuses. Stop giving us excuses and give us answers,” he said.
Mr Mulligan said Ferry wasn’t being watched and he had the keys to the main school building. He said he was usually there from 3pm until 9pm. He said anyone who had evidence that Ferry was in the school building after his conviction should provide it to the Garda.
When asked about media reports that gardaí are investigating an alleged paedophile ring, Mr Mulligan said he thought there may have been one. “I would say there was because there was one paedophile already named who was there in the 1990s – Fr Greene – I believe there is a cover up,” he said.
Donegal priest Fr Eugene Greene was released in 2008 after serving nine years of a 12-year sentence for a litany of sexual assaults against 26 children in Donegal parishes between 1965 and 1982.
Mr Mulligan is one of the four men abused as boys in a case that ended on Monday with Ferry receiving an 18-year sentence. Following the verdict he waived his right to anonymity, and read a statement outside the court describing Ferry as a “demon”.
“He has no remorse whatsoever for what he has done. His only remorse is at being caught,” Mr Mulligan said.
“I believe someone so sick and perverted could never change.”