UNITED KINGDOM
Huffington Post
A jury has retired to consider its verdicts on a priest accused of using his “revered and trusted” status in the community to sexually abuse young boys.
Alexander Bede Walsh, 58, denies abusing eight boys while working at Roman Catholic establishments in Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Coventry between 1975 and 1994.
A 10-day trial at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court heard that Walsh was arrested and interviewed in 2006 after two men contacted the police to claim they had been abused in Coventry when they were children.
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