Fr. Michael Walsh
From Boston MA. Ordained for Diocese of Grand Rapids MI 6/2002; placed on leave in 7/2002, after the Diocese learned of allegations against Walsh of the sexual abuse of two children while a lay person 40 years previously, at St. Francis de Sales in Charlestown MA. Walsh was 65 and a former Air Force Sergeant at time of his ordination. He had retired to FL in the mid-1990s, then moved to MD for seminary. Criminally charged in Boston in 9/2016 with rape and indecent assault and battery on a child, alleged to have occurred in the late 1980s-early 1990s when he was the altar boy coordinator at St. Brendan’s in Dorchester MA. Pleaded not guilty. His accuser said he was abused from 4th to 6th grades. Trial date was set for 9/2017.
- Grand Rapids Press 06.02.02
- Grand Rapids Press 06.02.02
- Grand Rapids Press 07.05.02
- Holland Sentinel 07.06.02
- Detroit Free Press 04.14.03
- Grand Rapids Press 01.08.07
- Boston Globe 09.28.16
- CBS Boston 09.28.16
- MassLive 09.28.16
- WHDH 09.28.16
- WCVB 09.28.16
- Dorchester Reporter 09.29.16
- NBC Boston 09.18.17
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