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A6 U.S. NEWS
Saturday 29 July 2017
Chief: Ex-priest in Boston sex abuse
Slain officer had no reason to expect danger scandal released from prison

it was Brown. Both people
in the car suffered non-life- Lask told The Boston Globe.
threatening injuries, police “Whether it’s across the
spokesman Sgt. Kendale street or down the road,
Adams said Friday. there are children every-
Southport Police Chief where.”
Thomas Vaughn said Allan As a condition of Shanley’s
would have been in “med- 10-year probation, he has
ic mode instead of police been ordered to have no
mode” as he approached contact with children un-
the crash scene, which der age 16.
was in a largely residential Ware Police Chief Shawn
area. The car wasn’t sto- Crevier said Shanley has
len and no arrest warrants registered as a sex offend-
were pending for Brown, This photo shows Paul Shan- er. Posters will be displayed
Vaughn said. ley, released Friday, July 28, around town notifying the
Police examine the scene of a car crash and shooting, Thurs- “I think that’s the hard 2017, from the Old Colony public that Shanley is living
day, July 27, 2017 in Indianapolis. A police officer died after be- part some of the officers Correctional Center in Bridge-
ing shot multiple times while responding to a traffic crash on the and our community are water, Mass. in the area, which is typical
south side of Indianapolis, authorities said Thursday. (MA SOR Board via AP) procedure for the depart-
(Michelle Pemberton/The Indianapolis Star via AP) dealing with now — they ment. Ware, a town of
don’t understand why you By MARK PRATT about 10,000, is about 65
By TOM DAVIES police Lt. Aaron Allan. Au- would shoot someone who DENISE LAVOIE miles west of Boston.
Associated Press thorities haven’t disclosed was there to help you. He Associated Press “We’re going to do what
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A a possible motive for the wasn’t there to arrest you,” BOSTON (AP) — A con- we need to do to make
police officer had no rea- attack or described the Vaughn said. victed pedophile priest at sure the citizens are pro-
son to suspect he was in interaction between Allan Allan, 38, was married and the center of Boston’s Ro- tected and his rights are
danger before he was fa- and the car occupants the father of a teenage man Catholic clergy sex also protected,” Crevier
tally shot while trying to once he reached the crash son and a 5-year-old son, abuse scandal settled into said.
help two people inside an scene just outside of South- Vaughn said. an apartment in western Shanley will be at least the
overturned car in a yard port, a municipality that is A judge on Friday ordered Massachusetts on Friday, third sex offender living on
along a busy Indianapolis also part of Indianapolis. Brown to remain in custody across the street from a his street, he said.
street, his chief said Friday. Indianapolis police said without bond until a Tues- children’s dance studio. Prosecutors sought to hold
Police arrested 28-year-old two other officers, including day court hearing, said Paul Shanley, 86, moved to Shanley beyond his crimi-
Jason Brown, of Indianapo- one who was off-duty, re- Peg McLeish, a spokes- the town of Ware after be- nal sentence under a law
lis, on a preliminary murder turned fire and shot one of woman for the Marion ing released from the Old that allows civil commit-
charge for the Thursday af- the people in the car, but County prosecutor’s office. Colony Correctional Cen- ment of people deemed
ternoon killing of Southport they didn’t specify whether q ter in Bridgewater, where sexually dangerous. But
he completed a 12-year two psychologists hired by
sentence for the rape of a the state found he did not
boy in the 1980s. meet the legal criteria to
Shanley used a cane and hold him.
was helped by an uniden- A lawyer who represented
tified man as he arrived in Shanley in his criminal ap-
Ware, followed by a group peal said he’s confident
of reporters and photogra- Shanley will not reoffend.
phers. But attorney Robert Shaw
His new home in a multiunit Jr. said he understands the
building is across from a re- reaction from those who
cently opened dance stu- opposed Shanley’s release
dio that teaches children from prison.
as young as 2. The studio’s “I’m sure that law enforce-
owner, Arielle Lask, said ment will ensure that the
she plans to install “state- community feels safe, and
of-the-art” security systems I have every expectation
and to make sure every that they are going to ful-
child leaves the studio ac- fill their obligation and be
companied by an adult. certain that Paul Shanley
“It’s awful that he’s even also remains safe,” Shaw
on the streets of Ware,” said.q