Accuser Ends Testimony in Former Priest’s Trial
The man accusing defrocked priest Paul Shanley of sexually abusing him as a child finished his testimony in Cambridge, despite begging the judge a day earlier to spare him from a third day of questioning.
The man stood by his claims of abuse before stepping down from the stand after 10 hours of testimony, much of it under cross-examination by Shanley’s lawyer, Frank Mondano.
The man, a 27-year-old firefighter, says Shanley raped and molested him at a Newton parish, beginning when he was 6.
He said he didn’t remember the abuse until early 2002, when he heard a friend’s account of allegedly being abused as a boy by Shanley.
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