Paul Shanley appealed his conviction in 2007 based on questions about the validity of repressed memories, but his conviction was upheld.
16 Facts About Paul Shanley
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Paul Shanley was incarcerated from 2005 until his release from state prison in 2017.
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Paul Shanley was born on January 25,1931, in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Paul Shanley's father owned a bowling alley and pool room and his mother worked as a legal secretary.
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Paul Shanley attended Huntington School for Boys, working in the summer as a camp counselor.
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Paul Shanley was ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Boston in 1960.
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The article stated that Paul Shanley defended the value of relationships between men and boys.
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Bishop Robert J Banks wrote a letter in January 1990 to the bishop of San Bernardino stating that Shanley had a clean record.
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Paul Shanley signed an affidavit for the Diocese of San Bernardino saying that he did not have any allegations of wrongdoing in Massachusetts.
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Paul Shanley was assigned to assist the pastor at St Anne's Parish in San Bernardino, California.
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Paul Shanley moved to New York City in 1995 to serve as assistant director of Leo House, a Catholic residence facility in Manhattan.
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The Paul Shanley case was based on recovered memories of abuse that happened 20 years earlier when the plaintiff was a young child.
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Shaw argued that Paul Shanley was prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned based upon inadmissible evidence.
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Paul Shanley was released on parole from Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater, Massachusetts on July 28,2017, after serving 12 years.
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Paul Shanley's sentence required him to be on supervised probation until 2027.
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Paul Shanley died of heart failure in Ware, Massachusetts, on October 28,2020, at age 89.