MASSACHUSETTS
Fox 25
Updated: Jul 28, 2017
BRIDGEWATER, Mass. – Former priest Paul Shanley, who was convicted of raping a boy in 1980s has been released from prison after completing his 12-year sentence, the Department of Correction said Friday.
The release comes as protesters vowed to demonstrate outside the Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater on Friday.
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.
Sexual abuse victims say they’re concerned the 86-year-old Shanley will not have enough supervision after he’s released.
He’ll be monitored by probation officials, but isn’t required to wear an electronic monitoring device.
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