It is always good to keep new stories out in view that will serve remind the public - and perhaps a few Catholics - of the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal so that they will hopefully think about the Vatican's and hierarchy's culpibility in the entire sad affair. Thus, I suspect that the hypocritical frauds in the leadership ranks of the Archdiocese of Boston will not be happy about convicted sex predator Paul Shanley's efforts to secure a new trial which would bring the Church's dirty laundry back into center view. Here are some highlights from the Boston Globe:
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Advocates for victims of clergy sexual abuse said yesterday that they were outraged that a priest at the center of the Boston clergy sex abuse scandal is seeking a new trial, based on a challenge to the theory of repressed memories. Former priest Paul Shanley, 77, is serving a 12-to-15-year sentence for repeatedly raping and fondling a boy at a Newton parish in the 1980s. The victim testified that his repressed memories of the event surfaced in 2002.
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Mitchell Garabedian, the Boston lawyer who represented more than 100 clergy abuse victims who reached civil settlements with the Boston archdiocese, said he has been flooded with calls about Shanley's motion for a new trial. "The victims [are] outraged that Father Shanley might have any possibility of having a new trial," Garabedian said. "The victims desperately want closure."
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Shanley became a central figure in the abuse scandal after at least two dozen men asserted that he had molested them.
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