PRISON FOR MAN FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT IN THE CITY

Date Published: 26-Nov-2007

A 46-year-old computer programmer, described by a judge as a “sexual predator”, has been sentenced to three years in prison with the last two years suspended at Galway Circuit Criminal Court.Gerard Walsh of Ower, Roscahill, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 16 year old girl in the Shantalla area of the city in December 1 and 31, 2002.Walsh had been exposing himself to women for twenty years, before he 'graduated’ to this assault, reports from therapists handed into court revealed.