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BOSTON (CBS) – A priest shown in a rare photo with Whitey Bulger was defrocked by the Vatican for allegedly sexually abusing boys.
The photo, released late Wednesday night by Bulger’s attorney with a series of other rarely seen pictures, shows Bulger sitting on a couch with Rev. Frederick Ryan.
Ryan would eventually become a vice chancellor of the Boston archdiocese.
Attorney Mitchell Garabedian confirmed to WBZ-TV Thursday that the priest in the photo is Ryan.
Garabedian has represented several victims in the Boston Archdiocese clergy abuse scandal and called Ryan a “serial pedophile.”
Ryan, according to the archdiocese, was defrocked in 2005.
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