Abusive priest sentenced to prison: Case was part of cover-up scandal
Former Boston priest Paul Shanley has been sentenced to 12 to 15 years behind bars for raping a minor in a Catholic church. Shanley’s was one of the more high-profile cases of offenders in the abuse and cover-up scandal in 2002.
Shanley, 74, faced a possible life sentence for abusing a boy, now a man of 27, at St. Jean’s parish in Newton, Massachusetts, in the 1980s. The unnamed accuser said Shanley would pull him out of religious education classes and molest him over a course of six years.