Brave victim of 'singing priest' paedo Tony Walsh says sicko 'will always be a danger to young boys'

A brave victim of released notorious cleric paedophile Tony Walsh has said the sicko "will always be a danger and a predator to young boys."

Evil Walsh, 70, who was known as the 'singing priest' was released from Arbour Hill prison on Wednesday after serving nearly 30 years behind bars for 38 sexual offences on schoolboys in the 1980s.

Depraved Walsh, who is also known as the 'Beast of Ballyfermot', used the cover of the Catholic Church to prey on innocent children.

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He was curate in Ballyfermot, Dublin and a chaplain to De La Salle school from 1978 to 1996, when he started to abuse the boys.

Formerly of Coolock, Walsh, who was known as an Elvis impersonator, was defrocked by Pope John Paul II in 1989 on the advice of Cardinal Desmond Connell and formally dismissed from the priesthood in 1996 because of his sick sexual abuse of young boys.

The evil man was mentioned in the Murphy Report into clerical sex abuse which contained harrowing details of how the sicko abused serially and continually during his time as a Catholic priest.

During one of his court hearings it was heard that the sicko told gardai he was attracted to young boys aged between 10 and 12 and "that was always the case."

Now that the child sex abuser is back on the streets, one of his brave victims Darren McGavin, 50, has spoken out calling his abuser "a barbaric animal, a limb of Satan" and calls him "The Beast of Ballyfermot."

"He will always be a danger and a predator to young boys. He is a serial rapist and a serial molester," Darren said in an exclusive interview with The Irish Mirror.

Darren, who now works as a therapist and counsellor, encourages more of the evil sex abuser’s victims to come forward "for their own well being."

"They will be believed, no matter what," said Darren, adding, "There are over 200 victims and so far only 38 have come forward and sadly 12 victims died by suicide."

But Darren feels victims won’t come forward as they don’t believe they will get justice “as many perpetrators will get off with suspended sentences."

"What I am concerned about is there are a number of judges who are paedophile sympathisers and I feel victims won’t come forward as they don’t see they will get justice as many get off with a suspended sentence," said Darren.

"Some judges are too lenient so victims don’t feel they are getting closure because of this.

"This man isn’t aware he is a paedophile. He already said he likes young boys. He persecuted me for years.

"He repeatedly denied his crimes in court and then when it came to the crunch he then admitted it after 22 court appearances in my case," said Darren.

"He has never shown remorse and a leopard never changes his spots so I do believe he will always be a danger to young boys."

Darren feels the minimum evil Walsh should have, now that he is back on the streets, is to wear an electronic tag and sign on at a garda station at least every day.

"I don’t believe he should be physically castrated because he has already done unspeakable things with implements to re-stimulate himself using rosary beads and a crucifix. I’ve been at the end of that.

"He is a horrific man," said Darren.

Courageous Darren was raped by Walsh over a four-year period between 1979 and 1983. Walsh received a 16 year jail term in January 2011 for raping Darren and two other victims.

Darren’s terrifying ordeal included being raped by the pervert three times every week between Christmas 1979 and May 1983.

Darren also told how Walsh bound his wrists and ankles with a rope belt before abusing him at a parochial house in Ballyfermot, west Dublin.

He added: "When he raped me for the first time in the parochial house, I will never forget the awful stench of whiskey on his breath.

"He closed the window and blasted out Elvis songs to drown out my screams.

"I remember hearing some footsteps outside and I was praying to whoever was there to save me."

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