After Chanin’s arrest, Walsh wrote on Facebook: “I take no pleasure in doing what I did. Many doors of friendship closed for me that day. Those of you who are disturbed by behaviour such as this need be reminded that we are all capable of speaking up.”
He doesn’t regret doing so, even if it cost other friendships.
“What I find sad is how society wants people like Brad punished, yet those like myself who act, suffer an equal but silent rejection from their own peer groups. I am no exception.”
But Walsh offers a final truth.
“At the end of the day, he was my friend,” he says. “If people think that it’s always a stranger that you read about in the paper doing stuff like this, you’re fooled.”
