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U.S. NEWS Wednesday 26 July 2017

Priest at center of clergy sex abuse scandal to be released

Ryan said both doctors
who evaluated Shanley
concluded that he does
not satisfy the legal criteria
for prosecutors to file a peti-
tion seeking to confine him
after his prison sentence.
During the trial, Shanley’s
accuser, then a 27-year-
old firefighter, said Shanley
would pull him from Sun-
day catechism classes and
rape and fondle him at St.
Jean’s parish in Newton,
beginning when he was
6 years old. The man said
he recovered memories of
the abuse as the clergy sex
abuse scandal unfolded in
the Archdiocese of Boston
during the early 2000s.
In this Feb. 15, 2005 photo defrocked priest Paul Shanley is led from Middlesex Superior Court Shanley’s trial attorney,
in Cambridge, Mass. in handcuffs following his sentence of 12 to 15 years in prison for raping Frank Mondano, declined
a boy repeatedly in the 1980s. Prosecutors in Massachusetts say that Shanley, one of the most to comment on Shanley’s
notorious figures in the Boston clergy sex abuse scandal, has completed his sentence on child upcoming release from
rape charges and will be released from prison this week.
(AP Photo/Charles Krupa) prison. q
By DENISE LAVOIE molested them when they
AP Legal Affairs Writer were children.
BOSTON (AP) — One of the Attorney Mitchell Garabe-
most notorious figures in the dian, who represented
Boston clergy sex abuse some of those men in law-
scandal has completed his suits against the Archdio-
prison sentence on child cese of Boston, said his cli-
rape charges and will be ents are upset that Shanley
released this week after is getting out of prison.
two experts hired by pros- “Unfortunately, there is no
ecutors found he does not mechanism in place which
meet the legal criteria to will prevent Paul Shanley
be held as a sexually dan- from sexually abusing once
gerous person. again,” Garabedian said.
Paul Shanley was known in “When it comes to a sexual
the 1960s and ‘70s for be- abuser abusing an inno-
ing a hip street priest who cent child, the abuser can
reached out to troubled be 35 or 95 — there’s no
youths. But in 2005 he was age limit.”
convicted of repeatedly Ryan said Shanley is prohib-
raping and fondling a boy ited from interacting with
at a suburban parish in the children.
1980s, and he was sen- “The defendant will be
tenced to 12 to 15 years in monitored by the proba-
prison. tion department for the
Middlesex District Attorney next 10 years and has been
Marian Ryan said Tuesday ordered to have no con-
that her office hired two tact with children under 16
psychiatric experts to eval- years of age,” she said.
uate Shanley, now 86 years Under a Massachusetts law,
old, to see if he should con- prosecutors may petition a
tinue to be held after com- court to have a defendant
pleting his sentence. Both indefinitely confined as a
experts told prosecutors sexually dangerous per-
that he does not meet the son after completion of a
legal criteria for civil con- prison sentence if the state
finement as a sexually dan- can prove he suffers from a
gerous person. mental illness or abnormal-
Once Shanley is released ity that makes him incapa-
Friday, he will begin 10 ble of controlling sexually
years of supervised proba- dangerous impulses.
tion. After Shanley was convict-
Shanley was defrocked af- ed, prosecutors asked a
ter dozens of men came judge to send him to prison
forward and said he had for the rest of his life.