MASSACHUSETTS
Huffington Post
By Sebastian Murdock
Posted: 08/01/2013
Among the things James ‘Whitey’ Bulger might have to explain in open court: What was he doing with a priest defrocked amid a pedophilia scandal?
In a photo released by defense lawyers, the notorious Boston mobster can be seen sitting next to a smiling man in clerical clothing. That priest has been identified as Frederick J. Ryan, who in 2005 was stripped of his priestly privileges for allegedly sexually abusing boys at Catholic Memorial High School in the 80s.
Attorney Mitchell Garabedian represented two former students who successfully sued the archdiocese in 2002, and he confirmed that the man in the photo is Ryan, according to Boston.com,
“Given Whitey Bulger’s lack of respect for humanity, it comes as no surprise that Whitey Bulger is associated with a serial pedophile such as Fred Ryan,’’ Garabedian said.
A 2002 Boston Globe article described how Ryan supposedly got a student intoxicated before orally raping the boy. The victim said Ryan’s room was covered with hundreds of photographs of student-athletes.
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