UNITED KINGDOM
The Sentinel
CATHOLIC priest Alexander Bede Walsh befriended boys ‘in awe’ of his position before sexually abusing them in swimming pools and at their family homes, a court heard.
The 58-year-old, pictured right, is on trial accused of 27 counts of sexual abuse on eight boys over a 20-year period.
Some of the boys were as young as seven when the incidents allegedly took place between July 1974 and December 1994.
Walsh served as a priest in Cheadle for 14 years.
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