IRELAND
Irish Independent
Declan Brennan
PUBLISHED
13/01/2016
Former priest and serial abuser Tony Walsh has been sentenced to one year 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 girl at St Luke’s, Kilbarron Park, Kilmore, Dublin, on a unknown date between April 17, 1973, and September 9, 1976.
He had pleaded not guilty. The victim was aged between seven and 10 at the time when Walsh locked her into a room and sexually assaulted her.
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