Week In Review: DCF Departure, Gerry Adams, Title IX And Colleges

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May 02, 2014

In this Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012 file photo, Helen McKendry holds a family photograph showing her mother Jean McConville at home in Killyleagh, Northern Ireland. Northern Ireland police say they have charged a 77-year-old man with involvement in the Irish Republican Army’s 1972 abduction, killing and secret burial of a Belfast woman, an unsolved case linked to Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams. The man was scheduled to be arraigned Saturday on charges of IRA membership and aiding the killers of Jean McConville, a widowed mother of 10. The IRA accused the 38-year-old of spying for British forces, abducted her at gunpoint from her home, and shot her in the back of the head. The IRA admitted responsibility in 1999. Her unmarked grave was discovered four years later in the Republic of Ireland. Two former IRA members since have accused Adams, a senior Belfast IRA figure in 1972, of ordering McConville’s execution. Adams denies any involvement. (AP)

On Monday Governor Deval Patrick accepted the resignation of Commissioner Olga Roche of the Department of Children and Families, following the deaths of three children.

Six Massachusetts colleges and universities are facing federal investigation for their handling of sexual harassment cases on campus. Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday that it's a nationwide problem. "We know the numbers: One in five young women dropped off on that first day of school, before they finish school will be assaulted," Biden said.

On Wednesday, Northern Irish police arrested Sinn Fien leader Gerry Adams... based on evidence they gathered from a Boston College oral history project that may implicate Adams in a decades-old killing. But one academic who made the recordings sees a longer play...

And just yesterday, Boston firefighters agree to a new contract.

Guests

Peter Canellos, editorial page editor at The Boston Globe

Tom Keane, former city councilor and columnist at the Boston Globe

This segment aired on May 2, 2014.