Defrocked Priest Gets 12 to 15 Years
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Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, a central figure in the Boston Archdiocese clergy sex abuse scandal, was sentenced Tuesday to 12 to 15 years in prison for raping a boy repeatedly in the 1980s.
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PUGHTOWN, Pennsylvania  - A lesbian Methodist  minister was defrocked on Thursday after being found guilty by  an ecclesiastical court of violating a church law that bars its  clergy from being practicing homosexuals.
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A former altar boy who accused a Roman Catholic priest of molesting him more than five years ago has reached a $1.2 million settlement with the priest's religious order, according to the man's parents and attorneys.
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DUBLIN -- Pope John Paul II has defrocked two priests convicted of sexually abusing children in Ireland, an unprecedented move in this predominantly Catholic nation, church officials confirmed yesterday.
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The defrocked priest is by turns remorseful and flippant as he recounts in graphic detail a lifetime of sexually abusing children. Then, near the end of "the most honest confession of my life," he turns to the movie camera to wink and smile at his victims.
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A man acquitted of murder 15 years ago is jailed for life after changes to the double jeopardy law.
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Pope John Paul II has defrocked two Catholic priests convicted of sexually abusing children in Ireland, an unprecedented move in this predominantly Catholic nation, church officials confirmed Thursday.
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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. Oct 22, 2004 - A former priest at the center of a notorious molestation case a decade ago has incurable cancer and should not be locked up indefinitely as a dangerous sexual predator, his lawyer said.
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A former coach at an elite gymnastics academy was sentenced to 15 years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.
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: A misdemeanor court convicted a defrocked Irish priest for tackling the marathon leader during the Olympic race and on Monday gave him a one-year suspended sentence.
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A priest in the Londonderry area pays out a five figure sum to settle out of court allegations of sexual abuse.
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A few of Paul R. Shanley's accusers were able to overcome criminal statutes of limitations because of a technicality: The priest left Massachusetts for California more than a decade ago. But a conviction may not come easily.
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A man who sickened more than 40 members of a Darien church last year by spiking their grape juice with soap was spared prison time at the request of parishioners.
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America's Most Un-wanted A US man who abused a pre-pubescent girl in his workplace has been jailed for 15 years.â¦
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NEW YORK - The city is showing no mercy to a priest who got a $115 ticket for parking in an ambulance zone while ministering to an ailing hospital patient.  Two months after ticketing the Rev. Cletus Forson of St. Andrew the Apostle Church in Brooklyn, the city has thrown out his appeal.
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The Archdiocese of Washington has agreed to pay $1.3 million to 16 men who said they were sexually abused by eight priests from 1962 to 1982.
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said yesterday that it has reached a $1.3 million settlement with 16 men who were sexually abused by priests between 1962 and 1982.