IRELAND
The Journal
FORMER ‘SINGING PRIEST’ Tony Walsh faces a maximum sentence of up two years in prison for the offence of raping a boy with a crucifix, a court has heard.
Anthony Walsh (62) committed the offence and two other rapes of the same victim before the Criminal Law (Rape) Amendment Act came into effect in 1990, limiting the maximum penalty on each offence to two years.
He is charged with indecent assault, as that was the offence which existed at the time.
He forced the child to have sex twice, once in the parochial house in his parish and on another occasion in a tunnel under the Phoenix Park.
He also used a crucifix to rape the boy.
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