Mark Vincent Healy was speaking after Henry Moloney was jailed for 3 years for the indecent assault of a former pupil at the college in the 1980.
While the victim can’t be named – Mark Vincent Healy who himself was abused by the 77 year old at a school in Dublin said survivors are left with a life sentence
In a victim impact statement read out at yesterday's sentencing hearing at Clonmel Circuit Court, – the victim who is not from Tipperary said the abuse blighted his life and that the anger will always be a part of him as he keeps asking himself why he was picked by Henry Moloney.
The former priest, who has a number of other convictions for child sexual abuse, was jailed for three years for the assaults on the Rockwell College pupil in the early 1980s.
Mark Vincent Healy was also abused by Henry Moloney in St Mary's College in Dublin and is now a campaigner for abuse survivors.
He says the conviction of the former priest will bring some solace to other survivors
In passing sentence on Moloney, Judge Tom Teehan said there were few mitigating factors but among them were Moloney's age – the fact he had prostate caner and that he himself was abused as a child
Mark Vincent Healy was the first male survivor of Irish clerical sex abuse to meet with Pope Francis last year.
The Dublin man was abused between the ages of 9 and 12 and now campaigns for “rescue services” and “safe space provisioning” for survivors of clerical child sexual abuse.
