Psychiatrist Testifies on Memory in Abuse Trial
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Prosecutors in Cambridge wrapped up their case against defrocked priest Paul Shanley after a psychiatrist testified that it was not uncommon for adults who suffered trauma as children to repress memories of the experience.
Shanley’s accuser, now 27, said he remembered in early 2002 that he had been raped and molested by the former priest from 1983 to 1989 at a parish outside Boston. Shanley’s lawyer has questioned the science behind repressed memory.
Shanley faces life in prison if he is convicted.
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