IRELAND
The Journal
FORMER PRIEST AND serial abuser Tony Walsh has received a sentence of one year’s imprisonment for the sexual assault of a child in the early 1970s.
Walsh was a seminarian at the time of the offence, which is the earliest recorded case of child abuse by him.
He went on to become known as the “Singing Priest” for his role in a travelling all-priest group before he was defrocked after his abuse of young boys began to emerge.
Walsh (61), formerly of North Circular Road, Dublin was convicted last December after a trial at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court of the indecent assault of a female at St Luke’s, Kilbarron Park, Kilmore, Dublin on an unknown date between 17 April, 1973 and 9 September, 1976.
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