Deliberations Continue in Ex-Priest’s Rape Trial
From Times Wire Reports
A jury deliberated for seven hours in Cambridge without reaching a verdict on child rape charges against defrocked priest Paul Shanley.
The jury is to resume deliberations Monday.
Shanley’s accuser, now a 27-year-old firefighter in a Boston suburb, testified that the priest began molesting him while he was in the second grade, taking him out of religious education classes for discipline and raping him in the confessional.
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