Pedophile priest Paul Shanley released from prison

WCVB
July 28, 2017

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BRIDGEWATER, Mass. —

A notorious figure in the Boston clergy sex abuse scandal was released from prison Friday after completing a 12-year sentence for raping a boy in the 1980s.

Paul Shanley was released shortly after 7 a.m. from the Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater.

Shanley will be living in an apartment on Pulaski Street in Ware, according to state officials.

Shanley was a "street priest" who ministered to alienated youth in the 1960s and '70s. Decades later, dozens of men came forward and said Shanley had molested or raped them. He was defrocked by the Vatican and convicted of raping a boy at a Newton parish.

But lawyers for priest sex abuse victims say he abused dozens of
children and remains a risk.

Sexual abuse victims say they're concerned the 86-year-old Shanley will not have enough supervision.

He'll be monitored by probation officials, but isn't required to wear an electronic monitoring device.