Carefree: Joseph Carrick looked relaxed but refused to speak about the case
MILLIONAIRE sex monster Joseph Carrick looks like he hasn’t a care in the world as he walks near his plush suburban home.
It is a rare sighting of the pervert choirmaster who went to ground after a court ordered him to pay an unprecedented €4.7million damages to two abuse victims.
However, as the millionaire company director enjoyed a stroll with his dog last week, his victims still haven’t received a penny of their compensation, we can reveal.
The award was appealed and the case is still listed in the courts after being transferred from the Supreme Court to the recently established Court of Criminal Appeal.
Carrick refused to talk when the Sunday World approached him as he took the dog for a walk close to his home in upmarket Blackrock.
“No, no thank you,” he replied, when asked to comment.
A neighbour told the Sunday World this week that Carrick had kept a low profile in the area.
“Everyone was just stunned, they couldn’t believe it. He was regular in the local pub, but hasn’t been in there since,” he said.
Carrick appeared relaxed as he took his time walking the dog, calling into a local shop and an off-licence, where he briefly chatted to staff.
During the legal battles it was said in court that Carrick may be suffering from dementia. The €4.7million award is the highest award seen in a civil sex abuse case.
One of the victims told the High Court how the abuse only stopped when she became pregnant by Carrick and then gave up the baby for adoption.
Carrick had been prosecuted four times in the criminal courts without success, but two of his victims then won a High Court order demanding damages for his actions.
He was branded in court as “a monster” and an “evil paedophile”, who took advantage of his position to abuse the young girls during the 1970s.
The court then upheld a decision to award the damages in October 2013, but Carrick immediately appealed that decision to the Supreme Court.
It emerged in court that he owned two apartments in Dublin, a bungalow in Saggart, a property in Wexford and the family home in Blackrock.
The court also heard how he made €1million from selling a Dublin port transit company several years ago and is in receipt of a number of pensions.
The €4.7m awards were made to Geraldine Nolan and Jacqueline O’Toole after a jury found Carrick had sexually assaulted and raped them during the early 1970s, starting when they were both 12 years of age.