Paedophile teacher John Gibson was quizzed by gardai 25 years ago – but was only jailed this week.
The Christian Brother was sent down for two years for vile sex attacks on a girl and boy at the Wexford school where he taught in the 1980s.
Yesterday the Irish Mirror reported claims the female victim had alerted the Catholic Church about the abuse 14 years ago.
But now another man not involved in February’s court case has come forward, claiming he was also assaulted by the cleric and he reported it to gardai in 1994.
Last night, the alleged victim said he was molested in the shower room in “identical circumstances” to the 12-year-old boy whom Gibson was found guilty of assaulting.
He said: “The word I got back at the time, in 1994, was the superintendent had looked at it and it wasn’t worth pursuing because it was basically my word against his.
“And then the statement went missing, never to be found.”
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The man added he played for the school hurling team coached by Gibson and later tried to forget about his attack.
But when allegations of clerical abuse first hit the headlines in the 1990s he “felt compelled” to report Gibson.
The man said: “The whole Brendan Smith affair was live at that time and the media were talking about this word ‘recidivism’ and I’d never heard it before.
“But it was about perpetrators re-offending. I knew I wasn’t the only one and I heard there were other identical incidents.
“But I was also of the view maybe he is doing the same or worse and there could be kids at risk.
The man said he contacted gardai when he was 25 and was asked to make a statement after two officers called to his house.
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He added: “It was handwritten, he was writing down everything I was saying. He [Gibson] was questioned immediately.
“A few weeks later the garda called over to my work actually and he said 'Can I see you for a minute'?
“He said, ‘Look, the superintendent is after looking at that and there’s no point pursuing it because it would be your word against his’.
“Now this is probably right and correct, I don’t know.
“According to the guard, he nearly fell off the chair when they were questioning him and he took to the bed afterwards. It was such a shock.”
Two decades later the man went back to gardai and made a second statement after reading reports of allegations.
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He said: “After the article I went back and they said 'Jesus we can’t find your statement'.
“So I said sure I’ll make a new statement and my wife also made a statement saying I had made the
statement in 1994 to corroborate mine.
“Six others made statements at that point as well. And there were two others who I tried to get to make statements and they wouldn’t.
“Then interestingly, this is how much of a liar Gibson is, when I made the second statement and they questioned him he pretended not to remember me.
“I got a letter first of all from the superintendent saying the DPP has said no charges preferred in this case and if you want an explanation for this you must write to the DPP, which I did.
“They wrote back to me and said the reason there was no charges is we couldn’t find your statement in 1994.”
A Garda spokesman said he couldn’t comment on the case.
