IRELAND
Irish Independent
DECLAN BRENNAN – 08 JUNE 2013
A FORMER priest who is serving 16 years for the rape and abuse of schoolboys has had 15 months added to his sentence for abusing two other boys in the ’70s and ’80s.
Tony Walsh, who was known as the ‘Singing Priest’, is also due to have the entirety of his sentence reviewed by the Court of Criminal Appeal next month.
Walsh (59), formerly of North Circular Road, Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to two counts of indecent assault on January 1 and April 4, 1979. The victims were aged between 10 and 11.
Judge Martin Nolan said that Walsh had worked his way into the confidence of the families of the two victims with “cold- blooded intent”. He said the sexual assaults were aggressive and incredibly frightening for the children involved.
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