Link – ‘You would never have suspected anything about his past’
‘It’s time we all get out from the idea that child molesters are socially awkward and weird. The kind of people we are suspicious of at first sight.
It simply isn’t true.
For someone to be able to perpetrate that much hurt, to so many children, and over such a long period of time, you would think it would show in them somewhere. But we never knew a thing.”
The words of shock and disbelief of one man encompasses the thoughts of an entire rural townland in the north of the country after local man Michael McCarville was this week sentenced to 20 years for the sustained rape and sexual abuse of a family of seven children over an 18-year period.
