BOSTON (MA)
The Daily Beast

Luke O’Neil

The family of Shaun Harrison, the Boston English dean and reverend accused of shooting a student who went afoul of his alleged drug ring, may have helped cover up church sex abuse.

The story of Shaun Harrison—the Boston reverend, public school dean, and anti-violence community activist accused of the shooting of one his students, an apparent employee of his alleged drug-dealing operation—seems almost too outlandish to be true. Many have compared it to something out of a movie, but with its overstuffed combination of drugs, religion, public schools, and violence, it’s the type you’d likely walk out of on account of its heavy-handedness.

But the story got even more distressing this week, as the details of his son’s alleged molestation at the hands of a fellow youth minister resurfaced.

Many in the Boston community in which he worked have rightly asked how…