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14/06/2016
Former “singing” priest Tony Walsh has been convicted of sexually abusing a young boy.
Anthony Walsh (aged 62), currently serving a sentence for sexual offences against a number of other children, denied ever knowing the boy and said he had never assaulted him.
During cross examination by the prosecution in the current trial, Walsh had said: “I think we are all victims”, when he was asked who he thought the victim was in this case.
“If I knew him I would have pleaded guilty years ago,” Walsh told the court as he gave evidence on his own behalf.
Walsh, who was a member of the All Priests Show, was asked by his counsel how he felt towards the children he had assaulted.
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