‘It was hell on earth, it was unrelenting. He just didn’t stop, and he got more brazen as time went on’ – sisters raped by their brother, priest Richard Brennan, tell their story
Catherine Wrightstone and Paula Fay on the trauma inflicted on them and other family members during years of sexual abuse
‘Your body freezes, you can’t move. It felt like my soul died’ – sisters raped by brother, priest Richard Brennan, want sentence reviewedAs young children, being awoken in the middle of the night to be abused by their brother Richard Brennan became part and parcel of three sisters’ early life growing up in south Dublin.“When you survive rape, it’s like surviving annihilation. It feels like a part of you dies in those moments,” one of the sisters, Catherine Wrightstone, said.
