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By Jenna Fisher (Patch Staff) – Updated August 4, 2017
NEWTON, MA — Now that he’s out of prison, more than 13,000 people want the 86-year old former priest convicted of raping a small boy while he was a pastor at Newton’s St. Jean L’Evangeliste church to get special treatment.
Thousands of people from near and far have signed a Care2 petition asking the state and the Boston Archdiocese put the former priest, Paul Shanley, who was released after serving 12 years in prison for raping a boy while he was head of a Newton church, in a secure treatment center.
He will now begin 10 years of supervised probation, but Matan Uziel who started the petition says it’s not enough. (( Follow the Newton Patch for all the latest news on Newton))
Uziel, founder of Real Women, Real Stories, a video project that seeks to promote awareness of the hardships women face, says he is concerned because prison does not treat pedophilia, and because Shanley will not be ordered to wear a GPS bracelet.
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