After 12 years of conviction on child rape charges, Paul Shanley, a former US Roman Catholic priest is set to be released from prison.
Now 86, Shanley is scheduled to be released from prison and begin 10 years of supervised probation.
Shanley was 74 years old when a Middlesex County jury convicted him
in 2005 of repeatedly raping a boy from his parish in the 1980s. His
victim, who was 27 years old during the trial, testified that Shanley
regularly pulled him out of Sunday catechism class for what he called
"special duties" and molested him in various rooms of St. John the
Evangelist, a defunct parish in the Boston suburb of Newton.
He was among the first clergymen to stand trial after the Boston
Globe's Spotlight team found allegations against priests of serial child
sexual abuse and coverups by the Boston Archdiocese.
The scandal rocked through the church, exposing similar allegations
worldwide that compromised its moral authority and led to years of
multimillion-dollar settlements.
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