The school, which was described as a care home for “mentally subnormal and delinquent” boys is the center of the inquiry, seemed to be a preying ground for abusive priests like McGrath, who was the dormitory supervisor when he was there. “One time, he got a few of us boys into his room. We were all placed in a group on the floor without our clothes on, and we were kneeling,” Ku said in his written statement read at the hearing, which was livestreamed. “Brother McGrath would go around us all with his penis out and try to put his penis in our mouths. Some of the other boys seemed to know what to do, but I didn’t. When he tried to shove his penis in my mouth, I bit him.” Other punishments included, hitting children with a crucifix, making the boys eat their own feces or watch McGrath masturbate and be forced to touch or consume the semen. “I was also threatened by Brother McGrath to keep quiet about what was going on. Once he took me to the hospital morgue and showed me a corpse as a way of silencing me.” Steven James Long, 56, another former student and victim of McGrath, also testified that the cleric threatened him and other young boys with death. He said McGrath showed him a corpse in the adjacent hospital morgue when he was 7 0r 8 and made him climb into a coffin and close the lid, according to minutes from the hearing. “He flipped me inside one of them and closed the lid,” Long said, according to the testimony. He said McGrath then pulled him out by the hair, told him that he would end up in there if he told anyone, and then raped him.
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