Shanley's radical roots sprouted on South Shore

The Patriot Ledger (Quincy, MA) ^ | 5/3/2002 | KEVIN ROTHSTEIN

[BansheeBill]

It was an idea that was radical in 1975 even for Boston's renowned street priest: open a retreat house in Sharon for what he called

[egarvue]

This guy's a puke, no doubt about it.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

‘‘People have wild ideas about sexual minorities", he said then. ‘‘They think they rape children, cause venereal disease. Dispelling myths is a full-time job."

Except, of course, that Shanley himself both raped children and had VD. Damn, I wonder where people get these cockamamie ideas . . .

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

I wonder if Gerry Studds, the homosexual congressman from Boston's south shore communities, had any connection with this pervert. Immagine, Congress couldn't throw out one of their own who was having sex with Congressional Pages.

[dennisw]

A liberal from the get go. Only he acted on his worst desires while most libs are too chickens**t.

[NEPA]

I thought there was a statute of limitations on everything except murder. Not that I mind this POS going to jail.

[BansheeBill]

I thought there was a statute of limitations on everything except murder. Not that I mind this POS going to jail.

I think for child rape/molestation in Mass, the statute runs 7 years (maybe 9) from the victim's 16th birthday.

[NEPA]

I think for child rape/molestation in Mass, the statute runs 7 years (maybe 9) from the victim's 16th birthday.

Thanks for the info. That kind of statute of limitations makes a lot of sense for crimes involving child victims.

[Dialup Llama]

So these acts occurred 20 years ago? Is there not another famous public figure who cannot be prosecuted because his alleged rapes also occurred many years ago?

BTW isn't there a statute of limitations? How did they get around that?

[Dialup Llama]

I've been trying to add it up, but the article is not making it easy. How old was the boy when these acts occured? The media wants to put stuff like this all under the pedophilia category rather than the homosexual category.

[maryz]

BTW isn't there a statute of limitations? How did they get around that?

There is a statute of limitations, but I gather the clock stops running if the perpetrator leaves the state.

[BansheeBill]

How old was the boy when these acts occured?

One of the boys was 8 years old according to new reports.

[BansheeBill]

This is from a Boston Herald article, describing Paul Busa's description of what Shanley did to him (5/3):

He said he remembered Shanley pulling him out of class and leading him to the bathroom in the church basement. Inside, the lights were off, and Busa stood by the far wall as the priest walked toward him, arms outstretched. From the time Busa was 6 until he was about 10, he said, Shanley repeated this ritual, pulling down the boy's pants or directing him to do so himself so that Shanley could fondle him.

At other times, Busa said, the priest invited him up to the rectory for a game of ``War,'' a variation on strip poker requiring the loser to undress. Eventually, he said, Shanley moved their meetings to the confessional, raping him from the time he was 6 until he was nearly 10. Busa said if he resisted, the priest reminded him that, if he ever told people, they would never believe him. ``He was that well liked,'' Busa said.

[one2many]

LET'S JUST KEEP WAKING PEOPLE UP TO WHAT THE BASTARD TYRANT AND HIS HANDLERS WROUGHT BY DESTROYING THE REPUBLIC.

"Look it's pretty simple. You have San Francisco forcing its people to pay for sex-change operations; you have Vermont sanctioning same-sex marriages; you have Oregon pushing euthanasia ... the people of Mississippi are not going to accept that. The Confederacy stands for a people's right to determine what sort of society, what sort of culture they want to build."—Anonymous Mississippian

**"The parties in this conflict are not merely abolitionists and slaveholders --they are atheists, socialists, communists, red republicans, jacobins on the one side, and the friends of order and regulated freedom on the other. In one word, the world is the battle ground - Christianity and atheism the combatants; and the progress of humanity the stake." --JAMES THORNWELL**

[nofriendofbills]

What an ASP!

[one2many]

Yeah the truth hurts doesn't it?