Paul Shanley
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Father Paul Richard Shanley, (born 25 January 1931) a defrocked priest, served at St. Jean's Parish in Newton, Massachusetts and was a prominent figure in the Boston clergy sex abuse scandal.
In February of 2005, Shanley was found guilty of the statutory rape of a minor and received a sentence of 12 to 15 years in prison. There remains some controversy regarding the case due to the fact that the allegations of abuse came only after the child in question (now a full grown man) underwent Repressed Memory Therapy, an oft disputed and controversial therapy. Shanley's lawyers had implied that the boy had been raped by his father instead.[1]
[edit] Shanley's Earlier Career
Shanley first gained notoriety during 1970s as a "street priest" and icon of the Progressive movement whose writings included "Changing Norms of Sexuality".[2] He gave a public speech promoting pedophilia, homosexual sex, incest, and bestiality in 1977 in Rochester, New York[3]. During the 1980s, Shanley served as pastor of St. John the Evangelist in Newton. 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]
[edit] References
- ^ Davis, Wendy. "Memory questioned in abuse case". Boston Globe 4/8/2003. Online version available at: http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories4/040803_memory.htm (Accessed on 09 October 2006).
- ^ Jacobs, Sally. "'If they knew the madness in me'. A search for the real Rev. Paul Shanley..." Boston Globe 7/10/2002. Online version available at: http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories2/071002_shanley.htm (Accessed on 09 October 2006).
- ^ Alan Keyes is Making Sense, 25 April 2002, MSNBC. Transcript
Emanuella Grinberg. "Disgraced Boston priest faces child molestation trial" Court TV 25 January 2005. Online at: http://www.courttv.com/trials/shanley/background_ctv.html (Accessed 21 October 2006)
"Deposition of Bishop Thomas V. Daily" (Day 2, page 1). Boston Globe 22 August 2002. Online version available at: http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/shanley/daily_deposition/day2_1.htm (Accessed 21 October 2006) - ^ Rezendes, Michael and Matt Carroll. "Boston diocese gave letter of assurance about Shanley", Boston Globe 4/8/2002. Online version available at: http://www.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories/040802_shanley.htm (Accessed on 09 October 2006).
