Tony Walsh jailed for indecent assault of child in Dublin

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Tony Walsh was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for indecent assault at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court on 7 July 2021.

A jury convicted Walsh of six counts of indecent assault following a trial in May 2021; he had pleaded not guilty.

The offences occurred in a Dublin church between September 1973 and July 1977, when Walsh was a trainee priest.

The court imposed 12 months on each count, with the first five terms concurrent and the sixth consecutive, producing the two-year term.