A man who claims he was sexually abused more than 30 years ago in County Fermanagh has spoken out for the first time about the “sick and depraved” attacks he faced as a schoolboy. 
The man, who does not want to be named, has graphically detailed the level of sexual abuse he encountered in Enniskillen when he was 14, beginning in 1986 and lasting for almost two years.
In a lengthy interview with The Impartial Reporter this week, Brian [not his real name] has revealed:
•    How his attacker, a family friend, made him watch pornography before sexually abusing him while his wife and children were on holiday 
•    How he was taken to a country lane near Devenish Island and raped
•    How he alerted the alleged abuser’s family to the abuse 
•    How the Police Service of Northern Ireland dropped the case five years ago due to a “lack of evidence”
He is the second victim of historical sex abuse to contact The Impartial Reporter in recent weeks and has come forward after reading an interview with a man who claimed he was abused as part of an alleged paedophile ring operating in Enniskillen during the 80s. 
Brian has provided this newspaper with details of his alleged abuser, copies of correspondence between him and senior police and a comprehensive report into each incident of abuse, including GPS coordinates of the various locations where he claims the sex attacks took place when he was a child.
“I am speaking out now because my life has never been the same. “The police took him [the alleged abuser] in for questioning, he denied all wrong doing and the case fell apart from a lack of evidence. It hurt to feel like speaking out was all in vain and I was once again a victim,” he said. 
Brian’s story begins in the summer of 1986 when after making friends with boys in a housing estate he cycled to their home outside Enniskillen.
“They had a large family who I got to know. I felt very welcomed and since I had no father, I enjoyed the company.
“The following summer arrived I had just turned 14. The family all went on holiday except the father. It was during my summer holidays from school and I was a little lost without my friends.”
He recalls receiving a phone call from the alleged abuser who asked him to help him in the home. 
“I arrived expecting some work but was told he had it all sorted. He asked if I wanted a drink in the house, I was given some orange juice, it was a sunny day. He asked if I wanted to see a video.
“He told me it was a bit naughty, I didn’t mind. It was a pornographic film. I had never seen one before.
“He then told me to put down my drink and he took off my trousers and underwear. He then did this to himself and started touching me,” explained Brian.
“It didn’t really hit me what happened until I got home,” he said.
Brian reluctantly returned to see his friends in their home after they had got back from holiday over a week later and the abuse commenced again. With his son out of the room, the alleged abuser made his move on Brian.
“He started to feel my groin. He heard his son walking up the stairs and he stopped. 
“Then when I left to walk home, he stopped me in the road and told me to get into his vehicle. I refused but he got very assertive and would not give up. He took me to the back of a business in town where he abused me,” he recalled.
This would occur several times again as Brian desperately tried to “outrun” his abuser, recalling how he “had to pay the price and get it over with as soon as I could”.
“There were three or four more incidents where he would find me on the roads. He started using a small van. 
“He once made me put my bike in the back of the van then he brought me just past Drumcoo roundabout, up the Irvinestown road, where he stopped at a country lane by a gate, and once at a lane towards Devenish Island.”
Brian has provided this newspaper with the exact locations of the alleged abuse.
He has also recalled, in extensive detail, telling two other friends about the incidents. 
Then aged 15 he was to be the victim of a deeply depraved attack, details of which can not be published in this newspaper, 
“I couldn’t believe it, I covered my face and went to the place in my mind I had trained myself to go to. I just wanted my mum to come and save me but I was entrapped in something I didn’t want to admit I even knew about. 
“After this I parted any company him [the alleged abuser]. He once gave me a lift and tried to feel me up, I would have been 16 or 17. I told him to stop, he told me he really liked me and missed me. I made up a story that I had a girlfriend. It was simply a tactical necessity and not romance based. He understood and let me out.”
Five years ago Brian found the strength to finally face his demons and report his abuser to police at a station on the other side of the world where he has lived for almost 20 years. The case was referred to police in Enniskillen and the subsequent correspondence has been seen by this newspaper. 
“I believe the police did all they could, it was my word against his. I got an e-mail stating the case had fallen apart due to lack of evidence. I’m not sure how thoroughly they questioned him but it seemed to fall on his favour.
“I felt like a victim again, back to square one but I realised shortly after I had at least fought back, I had removed this tumour from me and given it all in writing to the police. I never got justice.”
Brian has chosen to speak out in the hope of helping others who have experienced similar abuse in Fermanagh in the past or those who are facing it right now.
He continued: “Speak out, get your story out there, go to the newspaper, go to a different police station. 
“And to any parents reading this: paedophiles are usually not dirty, svengali type men in long coats waiting in the bushes but usually confident men who have managed to get your blessing to be alone with your child. 
“They can often be above the law or work alongside it. They hunt on directionless, shy kids who have no voice. 
“My life is back on track, I am married to my wife now for five years and my self-destructive and reckless urges are now more suppressed. 
“If you have been abused like me come forward and fight back. It wasn’t our fault,” he said. 

NEED HELP? Nexus NI offers counselling and support to people over 16 who are survivors of sexual abuse, victims of sexual violence including those who have experienced rape and sexual assault. 
For further information visit nexusni.org or to make an appointment contact the Enniskillen office on 028 66 32 0046.

If, like ‘Brian’, you feel strong enough to share your story or information about sex abuse in Fermanagh e-mail redwards@impartialreporter.com or phone 028 66 32 44 22. 
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