paedophile priest who ran his own sweet shop and disco
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Jim,man of GOD, friend to GOD
Well, at least in the UK people are being held accountable for their actions. Over here in the US it’s a totally different story. I hope we can learn something from mother England. 
LordLundin
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Read more about this nasty cunt here: https://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-trent-news/inside-wicked-crimes-paedophile-priest-10858345
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The priest initially denied any wrongdoing but went on to plead guilty. A court heard that a police investigation was launched after a man looking over his shoulder on a train saw what he believed to be unsuitable material on Walsh's computer and reported it. Images were discovered of young boys wearing nappies and swimming trunks.
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But suspicions of his sexual interest in children soon caught up with him at the age of 51 in 2004 when he was accused of 17 counts of making indecent photographs of children.
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host regular discos. He ran an award-winning cafe called Church Gate Tea Shop in Chapel Street, across the road from the church, known as Pugin's Gem. He remained in Cheadle until 1999 when he was moved to serve at St Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham.
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He was a chaplain and governor at Painsley Catholic College and other feeder schools. It is shocking in hindsight that he ran his own sweet shop and would
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More details emerged just this week as the now 72-year-old - full name Alexander Bede Walsh - was handed a 12-month prison sentence after being convicted of abusing a boy at a church in Cheadle in the 1980s. It will not affect his prison release date of 6 October, 2026. He had arrived in North Staffordshire in 1985 as procurator and priest-in-charge at the now defunct Cotton College. He lived in Mow Cop for a time and also worked in Newcastle, Burslem and Alton. But it was in Cheadle, where he became the parish priest of the famous St Giles' Church, in 1987, where he became a central figure of town life.
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To many, Father Bede was a pillar of the community offering spiritual guidance to thousands of Catholics in North Staffordshire. But behind the veneer of robed respectability, he was a predatory paedophile who targeted young boys. His despicable crimes stretched over decades, from when he worked in children's homes in the 1970s and continuing after he was ordained in 1979.