UNITED KINGDOM
International Business Times
By Jamie Lewis
February 7, 2012
A former Roman Catholic clergyman from Staffordshire has been convicted of 19 charges of abusing boys as young as seven.
Alexander Bede Walsh, 58, from Abbots Bromley, was found guilty at Stoke crown court of sexually abusing seven boys aged between seven and 16 while working as a priest.
The jury heard that the incidents happened between 1975 and 1993 whilst he was working as a priest in Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Coventry.
Walsh denied a total of 27 counts of sexual assault on young boys. He told the court he had never abused or inappropriately touched any of the victims.
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