MASSACHUSETTS
ABC News
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BRIDGEWATER, Mass. — Jul 28, 2017
The Latest on the release from prison of a former Roman Catholic priest convicted of child rape (all times local):
12:55 p.m.
Two psychologists who evaluated a defrocked pedophile priest concluded that he is unlikely to sexually abuse more children because he is now 86 and has health issues.
Both psychologists found that Paul Shanley meets the psychiatric criteria for pedophilic disorder. But they said in written reports that research suggests that recidivism rates for people of his age are extremely low. They also cited the fact that his last reported offense was in 1990.
Shanley was one of the most notorious figures in the Boston clergy sex abuse scandal. Dozens of men came forward and reported that Shanley had molested or raped them when they were children.
He was released from prison Friday after completing a 12-year sentence for raping a young boy at a Newton parish in the 1980s.
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