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Originally Posted by Niamh.

Yeah, I agree with all that. To add to that also he seemed scared of Steve and in one recorded phone call to his mother claimed that he'd been sexually abused by him. If they did actually do it, I would absolutely think that Brendan was also a victim and was probably traumatized by the whole thing.

Yeah if it did happen exactly as the prosecution has claimed in the past, then I would imagine that Steven would be goading him into participating and helping, and that he would probably have feared (perhaps even rightly) for his own safety if he refused. Then because of his naivety and child-like way of thinking, he wouldn't have known that he could just tell the whole truth and probably get a lot of protection if he said that he was forced into it. He would just think that admitting to it would definitely cause even more trouble.

Speaking of victims though, I do hope everyone remembers the real victim in all of this, that poor woman who was actually murdered, sometimes it feels like because of that TV series she's almost seen as a "baddie" along with her family :/ I wonder how they're feeling right now too

I think they avoid talking about her much as a person at all in the documentary, which is a bit strange. And then on top if that... I think her brother and her ex(?)-boyfriend's odd seeming behavior doesn't help much either.