Tom McLaughlin, who lives in a suburb of Portland, Oregon, was among those who accused Porterfield of making sexual advances on him as a young adult student — after he confided in Porterfield that he’d been sexually abused by a member of the Irish Christian Brothers religious order as a high schooler in Seattle.

“I loved Notre Dame, my years there were transformative, it opened the world to me, I owe a lot to the whole experience,” says McLaughlin. “So it really breaks my heart, and it makes me f–ing angry that I can’t trust them.”

Brother Edward Courtney, whom McLaughlin identified as his high school abuser, was accused of having assaulted more than 50 children around the country, including the Chicago area, the Sun-Times previously has reported.

And a native of northern Illinois abused by King while a University of Notre Dame student also was previously sexually abused, as a minor, by a Benedictine priest at a Catholic high school, according to records and interviews.