[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!

[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.

[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?

[Catspaw]

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

[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.

[ZULU]

Maybe he was looking for converts?