Sentencing delayed for ‘conniving’ sex abuser judge as he is warned he could face jail

Gerard O’Brien arrives at the Criminal Courts of Justice in Dublin for his sentence hearing. Photo: Paddy Cummins

Andrew Phelan

VICTIMS of sexual abuse by former judge Gerard O’Brien have said they were “conned and manipulated” by an “extremely egotistic and conniving” man.

O’Brien (59), a schoolteacher at the time, was a “fraud" and a "horrible individual” who had been trusted and admired by his pupils, but abused his position of “privilege and power,” they said.