Shanley visited child sex havens in Thailand

The Boston Herald ^ | 5/6/02 (for editions of 5/7/02) | Christopher Cox and Robin Washington

[GeneD]

This slow-motion train wreck is getting uglier and uglier.

[american colleen]

I think Shanley is going to tell all. This case will be a circus.

Just glancing at this guy gives me the creeps and my skin actually crawls. The devil in a collar.

[Theresa]

The guy was wallowing in sin and evil. He is a predator of the innocent and helpless who has no conscience and evidently never even tried to stop. What causes this? It's so horrible!

[luvbach1]

Are there no depths to which this "prevert" has not sunk? He was arrested here in San Diego in Hillcrest, our gay enclave. But no little boys there, I think.

[anniegetyourgun]

I think I'm gonna throw up....

[Palladin]

Thank God for a free press. If it weren't for the Boston Herald and the Boston Globe, this would all have been swept under the rug again, like it has been for forty years.

[ikka]

How spiritually blind would Cardinal Law or the others who were in authority over Shanley have to be to miss this?

People with such deep and evil behaviors aren't able to hide their essential nature from others for a long period of time.

[Mike Fieschko]

I think Shanley is going to tell all. This case will be a circus.

Shanley is 71, I believe.

A long prison sentence is unlikely to be very threatening: how much longer can he expect to live? (Please, no remarks about what welcome he will receive in prison.)

I don't know what the range is in Massachusetts for sentencing, so, what advantages could a prosecutor offer for a plea bargain?

What would the prosecutor offer 'in exchange' for Shanley telling prosecutors everything he knows?

[ValerieUSA]

There are sickos dying to read all the lurid details of this porn story. He'll tell to sell books and feed the unnatural lusts of readers.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I just heard on the radio about an hour ago that the abuse vicitim's lawyer is going to ask Cardinal Law what his sexual preferences are and what he thinks is "normal sexual behavior".

I am glad all this crap is coming out so the Church will have to clean house. It pisses me off that they let this go on and now I'm paying for it.

[Teacher317]

``I'm surprised that he actually came back. It reinforces the district attorney's fear that if notified in advance of the criminal complaint there was a high risk that he would flee.''

Does this make sense? He's more of a flight risk since he came back to the US? They would have felt better if he tried to stay out of the country?

[Slyfox]

If it weren't for 'The Wanderer' us faithful Catholics would not have had a reason pray
all these years that somehow the media would get on the stick and uncover these perverts.

[american colleen]

Well, I wasn't looking at it like a plea bargain thing. Pure speculation on my part, but this guy Shanley claims in letters that he had been molested as an altar boy and seminarian by two priests who were the predecessors of Cardinal Medeiros. It appears that Shanley was using blackmail against Cardinals Medeiros and Law.

It seems to me that if Shanley wanted to avoid prison, he would have left the country. He knew the jig was up and there he was, holed up across the street from his residence.

No making sense of such a sick mind, but maybe he was just waiting to be arrested.

[american colleen]

I just heard on the radio about an hour ago that the abuse vicitim's lawyer is going to ask Cardinal Law what his sexual preferences are and what he thinks is "normal sexual behavior".

That makes me sick.

[Palladin]

Oh, most definitely...thank God for the Wanderer, and also for RCF and Steve Brady.

Thanks to all their efforts, we are finally getting to the bottom of this stinking cesspool.

All things hidden in darkness will be exposed to the light!

[Catspaw]

Why am I not surprised Shanley spent time in the hellholes of Thailand.

[aristeides]

Shanley Pleads Innocent; Bail Set at $750,000.

[SamAdams76]

The fact that Shanley was so quick to agree to extradition (to Massachusetts) indicates that he has a story to tell and perhaps a deal to cut with the DA. Given Shanley's sordid past and the fact that he was protected all these years by the church indicates that he might have the goods on a lot of things we are not even aware of yet.

This guy Shanley is a real piece of crap. During the 1960s, he was a leftist radical who espoused Communism (in addition to sex with children) and was friendly with some of the most vile scum, such as the left-wing terrorist group "The Weathermen."

[TBall]

What an evil monster. It must be difficult to seek repentance when one does not have a conscience.