Comments on: Convicted Ex-Priest Challenges Memories Of Alleged Victims http://www.wbur.org/2009/09/10/shanley WBUR is Boston's NPR News Station, featuring NPR news and programs such as Car Talk, On Point, Here & Now, Only A Game and Radio Boston. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:31:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Alethea Marina-Nova http://www.wbur.org/2009/09/10/shanley/comment-page-1#comment-1537 Alethea Marina-Nova Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:03:30 +0000 http://www.wbur.org/?p=6256#comment-1537 There are countless studies which prove that some people who have been traumatized as children can and do repress it. There are also confessions from abusers in repressed memory cases. Total amnesia for child sexual abuse happens in at least ten percent of victims. According to several news sources, Church Heirarchy in the Archdiocese of Boston were aware that Rev. Paul Shanley endorsed sex between men and boys, but they promoted him within the church anyway. Cardinal Bernard Law also knew about Shanley's deviant views on sex and young boys. There are documents that indicate that Shanley was involved in the North American Man-Boy Love Association, also known as NAMBLA -- an organization that promotes sex between men and boys. http://www.google.com/search?q=shanley%2C+man+boy+love&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a Child sexual abusers proclaiming their innocence and "mental health experts" willing to deny an abundance of research and evidence of repressed memories is nothing new under the sun. There are countless studies which prove that some people who have been traumatized as children can and do repress it. There are also confessions from abusers in repressed memory cases. Total amnesia for child sexual abuse happens in at least ten percent of victims.

According to several news sources, Church Heirarchy in the Archdiocese of Boston were aware that Rev. Paul Shanley endorsed sex between men and boys, but they promoted him within the church anyway. Cardinal Bernard Law also knew about Shanley’s deviant views on sex and young boys.

There are documents that indicate that Shanley was involved in the North American Man-Boy Love Association, also known as NAMBLA — an organization that promotes sex between men and boys.

http://www.google.com/search?q=shanley%2C+man+boy+love&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

Child sexual abusers proclaiming their innocence and “mental health experts” willing to deny an abundance of research and evidence of repressed memories is nothing new under the sun.

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