Paedophile Tony Walsh faces life term after guilty plea in abuse case
Notorious paedophile Tony Walsh is facing up to life imprisonment for sexually abusing three young boys while he served as a priest in Ballyfermot in Dublin.
The 56-year-old with an address at Bunratty Road, Coolock, has pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting two of the boys and was last month convicted by a jury on separate charges of buggering and sexually abusing the third boy between 1979 and 1983.
Nicknamed "Fr Filth", Tony Walsh was one of the priests investigated by the Murphy Report into clerical sexual abuse in the Dublin archdiocese.
Today one of his victims described how when he was 10, the defrocked paedophile used the ropes from his vestments to tie him up over a coffee table and rape him in the presbytery, telling him that he would burn in hell for all eternity if he told anyone what had happened.
Another of his victims was an altar boy who recalls that Tony Walsh, an Elvis impersonator, was part of the All Priests Show.
When he picked up the courage to tell his parents about the abuse, they hit him and told him not to say such things about a man of God.
Tony Walsh has already served a six-year sentence in the 1990s for abusing six boys.
He will be sentenced later this afternoon.
