IRELAND
Irish Independent
Court of Criminal Appeal reserves judgement on appeal by ‘Singing priest’ and serial child abuser Tony Walsh
PUBLISHED 19 MARCH 2014
The Court of Criminal Appeal has reserved judgment in the case of former priest and serial child abuser Tony Walsh, who is appealing against separate sentences of 16 years and 15 months imposed on him for the rape and sexual abuse of young boys in the nineteen seventies and eighties.
Walsh, who was known as the “Singing Priest” for his role in a travelling all-priest vocal group before he was defrocked, is serving a 16-year sentence imposed on him in 2010 for the rape and abuse of three school boys.
The 59-year-old had pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to two counts of indecently assaulting a male in a west Dublin church between November 1978 and April 1979.
He pleaded guilty to a further charge of indecently assaulting a male in a west Dublin school between January 1984 and December 1985.
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