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'This is about protecting the children': Notorious child raping priest walks free from prison
Crime Online ^ | Saturday, July 29, 2017 | Lawrence Bonk

Posted on 07/30/2017 11:32:11 PM PDT by Jyotishi

Paul Shanley, a priest convicted of multiple counts of child rape, has walked free, as reported by FOX8.

Shanley, 86, has spent the last 12 years behind bars after being convicted in 2005 of two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child and two counts of rape and abuse of a child, according to the sex offender registry.

The Massachusetts man now begins 10 years of supervised probation, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said in a statement.

Shanley was one of a number of Catholic priests convicted of child rape, the fallout from an infamous Boston Globe investigation which was chronicled in the critically acclaimed film Spotlight.

(Excerpt) Read more at crimeonline.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: catholic; children; law; priest; prison; probation; rape; sexoffenders
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1 posted on 07/30/2017 11:32:11 PM PDT by Jyotishi
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To: Jyotishi

He should run for office in a Democrat area. He could win!


2 posted on 07/30/2017 11:33:22 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Everywhere is freaks and hairies Dykes and fairies Tell me where is sanity?)
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To: Jyotishi
Shanley was the "hippie priest" who made contact with many teenage drop-outs who made their way to Boston in the late '60s and early '70s. He was particularly attentive to young men who were "having trouble accepting their sexuality."

Later he was transferred by Cardinal John Law from parish to parish, where he abused other boys, some as young as age six.

The church paid for him to get "therapy" at a live-in "treatment center" to which other child-abusing priests from the Boston area were sent. Psychologists at this facility pronounced Shanley (and others) "fit to return to their priestly duties," and they were returned by Cardinal Law to work at new parishes.

Shanley eventually left for Palm Springs, California, and with another Boston-area priest named John White opened a bed and breakfast catering to homosexuals; the name of the B&B was "Inn Exile." They did this while being on "sick leave" from the Boston diocese, and collecting pay from the diocese, with (apparently) the full knowledge of Cardinal Law.

This is just a brief synopsis of the story, which does not begin to do justice to the extreme malfeasance and evil perpetrated by the Boston archdiocese hierarchy in protecting Shanley (and John Geoghan, and others) for many years during the '70s, '80s, and '90s. The Boston cases cost the Church many tens of millions of dollars to settle.

3 posted on 07/31/2017 12:21:03 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Liberals think in propaganda)
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To: Jeff Chandler

Word is that he is the new VP, Northeast Region, for Comet Pizza.


4 posted on 07/31/2017 12:21:35 AM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: Jyotishi
The backstory is that Shanley was a hero to liberals in Boston because he helped poor people...and was praised in several high profile articles.

and it did not help that Law was lazy, and left the officials in the office take care of problems.

and back in the 1980s, we docs were told that a child's story of sex with an adult was usually imaginary, not real. Blame Freud for that theory.

5 posted on 07/31/2017 12:54:45 AM PDT by LadyDoc (Liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: Steely Tom

He and ever child rapist should be castrated.


6 posted on 07/31/2017 2:08:22 AM PDT by Lumper20
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To: Steely Tom

Can you believe that about running that gay B&B !!!!!

here is the WIKIPEDIA summary:

Early career
Shanley first gained notoriety during the 1970s as a “street priest”, ministering to drug addicts and runaways who struggled with their sexuality. His writings included Changing Norms of Sexuality.[2] During the 1980s, Shanley served as pastor of St. Jean the Evangelist Parish in Newton.[3] In 1990, he was transferred to St. Anne’s in San Bernardino, California. While there he and another priest, John J. White, co-owned “a bed-and-breakfast for gay customers 50 miles away in Palm Springs”.[4]

Shanley had earned “the nickname the hippie priest for his long hair and outspoken views, including his public rejection of the church’s condemnation of homosexuality.”[5] He attended a conference on sexuality where the founders of NAMBLA, the North American Man Boy Love Association, conceived the idea of such an organization.[6] However, Shanley was not a part of the 32 individuals at the meeting who caucused to form the group, according to a Catholic priest and Protestant minister who were.[7]


7 posted on 07/31/2017 2:19:55 AM PDT by dennisw (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it is enemy action.)
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To: Steely Tom
Lucifer's Lodge: Satanic Ritual Abuse in the Catholic Church

From the reader comments:

William Kennedy has finally exposed the Satanic element lurking behind the priest abuse scandal. . . It has been obvious for some time to anyone paying attention that there is a Luciferian pattern evident in all of the more sensational stories of priest sex abuse. Most notably the case of Paul Shanley, whom Kennedy devotes an entire chapter to in this book. He was even involved with the Process Church of the Final Judgement, as Kennedy proves.

8 posted on 07/31/2017 2:28:51 AM PDT by Fedora
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To: dennisw

He was also put in charge of a hostel in New York near Greenwich Village, Leo House.


9 posted on 07/31/2017 2:30:59 AM PDT by Fedora
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To: Jyotishi

At least this perv priest went to jail. Most of them just move out of the state or retire. Our perv bishop is still hold up in a “ rehab” facility in Baltimore.

I know these creeps will burn in hell.


10 posted on 07/31/2017 2:38:40 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: LadyDoc

Sounds like Jim Jones, who did the same “community organizing” in San Francisco while in fact just chasing sex...As another FReeper pointed out (when OJ and a Puerto Rican terrorist were released recently), these old convicts are probably just being turned loose so the state doesn’t have to provide free healthcare to them in prison (just as they start getting much more costly).


11 posted on 07/31/2017 3:38:29 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Jyotishi

I am disgusted by these criminals who the Catholic Church allowed to lecture other adults on their moral obligations. What hypocrisy.


12 posted on 07/31/2017 4:30:00 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Steely Tom

Too twisted that the bishop had so much empathy for the child molesters and none for their innocent victims.


13 posted on 07/31/2017 4:31:38 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Jyotishi

He can be the religious director of NAMBLA...will someone kill this POS....


14 posted on 07/31/2017 5:11:11 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: Jyotishi; All

This is one of the factors why parishes have either close or merge.


15 posted on 07/31/2017 5:51:20 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: Jyotishi

Don’t give the Boston Globe any credit. They knew these priests were guilty in the 1970s, and twisted (pathetically weak) arms in the diocese to keep them around. The real credit should go to the National Review.


16 posted on 07/31/2017 6:35:24 AM PDT by dangus
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To: Steely Tom

As is usual the coverup is worse than the crime. If the Church had been honest and up front and had gone after pedophiles in its ranks with a vengeance the decades of scandal after scandal and slow bleed would never have occurred. Unfortunately it took the usual course that powerful organizations usually do.


17 posted on 07/31/2017 8:18:49 AM PDT by Seruzawa (FABOL)
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To: Fedora

I was shocked that this place still exists...says internet.


18 posted on 07/31/2017 9:13:34 AM PDT by dennisw (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it is enemy action.)
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To: Jyotishi

What about about psychiatrists who rape their patients?


19 posted on 07/31/2017 4:26:22 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
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To: Jeff Chandler

Massachusetts voters reelected Gerry Studds a couple of times AFTER he was caught with a 17 year old male page and was reprimanded before the House of Representatives.


20 posted on 08/02/2017 12:25:51 PM PDT by cradle of freedom
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