Confessional rape? Accused priest Paul Shanley may be jailed for life for rapes in confessional; Boston diocese backs out of settling for $A75m for 86 Fr John Geoghan victims (already paid $28m for 40 victims), other victims cited

U. S. A. flag; Mooney's Miniflags   California, U.S. State, flag; Mooney's Miniflags   BOSTON: Paul Shanley, the priest at the epicentre of the clergy sex-abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church in the U.S., has agreed to return to Massachusetts from California to face criminal charges that he raped a boy.
  Sometimes, it was alleged, the rapes took place in a church confessional over a seven-year period.
  He could face life imprisonment if convicted.
  Father Shanley, 71, is one of the most notorious figures in the sex scandal engulfing the Archdiocese of Boston.
 
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Arrested on Friday, he waived his right to fight extradition at a court hearing and will be held without bail until picked up by the Massachusetts authorities.
Massachusetts, U.S. State, flag; Mooney's Miniflags   His court hearing came as the Archdiocese of Boston backed out of a settlement agreement with 86 victims of defrocked priest John Geoghan, saying the deal would strip it of resources.
  Rejecting Cardinal Bernard Law's request to sign off on the deal, the archdiocesan finance council refused to fund the agreement, estimated at $A75 million. It said the deal would "leave the archdiocese unable to provide a just and proportional response to other victims".
  The archdiocese has already paid $28 million to 40 alleged Geoghan victims since the mid-1990s and faces dozens more claims and hundreds of new allegations against him and other priests.
  The scandal in the Boston archdiocese gained national attention in January when Geoghan was convicted of indecent assault and battery of a child, and Father Shanley's arrest was the latest development in the scandal.

"Accused priest may be jailed for life" The Sunday Times, Perth, May 05 02, p 35

FURTHER READING

A: Guidelines for handling clergy abusing children multiline.com.au/~johnm/nonmarital.htm Feb 19 2002
B: Fathers would make the best "Fathers"; how to select clergy; Mar 4 02
K: Hoopmann, Queensland Lutheran Pastor, denies sex charge The West Australian Mar 6 02
L: Father Geoghan -- Deal close on $60m U.S. sex payout The West Australian Mar 7 02
#: Adelaide's Archbishop Wilson defends Vatican guidelines The Record Mar 14 02
@: Anglican sex sorrow not conscience move The West Australian Mar 19 02
@: Some U.S. RC's. query no-sex vow The West Australian Tuesday Mar 19 02
@: Hollingworth dumped again by charity The West Australian Mar 28 02
@: Polish archbishop quits over sneaking down tunnel to dormitory The West Australian Mar 30 02
@: Priest abuse and abortion woman gets $2m payout in Los Angeles area - Fr John Lenihan; The West Australian, April 3 02
@: Bishop resigns over boy-sex cleric Fr Sean Fortune in Ireland; The West Australian, April 3 2002
@: Scandal keeps lawyer Stephen Rubino busy with 250 clients in three continents The West Australian Wednesday Apr 3 02
@: Abuse of Trust: Child Sexual Abuse and the Churches, "Background Briefing" on ABC, Australian (and some global) wide-ranging discussion. Apr 14 02 www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/stories/s531384.htm
FURTHER READING, continued

@: Teachers jailed, Victorian husband and wife - John Alexander, Elspeth McKenzie - seduced 14-year-old Wesley College girl; The West Australian, Saturday April 20 2002, p 7
@: Priest was evil one, says cover-up victim , Fr Paul Shanley said he kept silence about cardinal abusing him in seminary, hierarchy conspiracy to allow Fr Shanley access to youth since 1967, Cardinal B.Law's secret Rome trip, and all 8 U.S. cardinals off to Rome, Victim's lives broken; The Weekend Australian, Roy Eccleston, April 20-21 2002, p 16
@: Sex priest Paul Shanley in blackmail threat against Cardinal Humberto Madeiros; one-time US motorcycle 'street priest' ran inn with homosexual clients; papers with lawyer Roderick MacLeish jun; The West Australian Mon Apr 29 02 p21
@: Priest sex video sent to flock by blackmailing homosexual ex-lover; Fr Eladio Ocana Serrano, Spain The West Australian Tue Apr 30 02 p20
@: Accused US priest Paul Shanley may be jailed for life for rapes in confessional; Boston diocese backs out of settling for $A75m for 86 John Geoghan victims (already paid $28m for 40), other victims cited; The Sunday Times, Perth, May 05 02, p 35
Perpetrators List kept by Australian campaigner Clare Pascoe Henderson http://www.pip.com.au/~chenderson/perplist.htm
Broken Rites religious abuse claimants' support group http://brokenrites.alphalink.com.au
The Sunday Times, Perth, at http://www.news.com.au/   E-mail: letters@sundaytimes.newsltd.com.au
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