Defrocked Irish priest gets one-year suspended sentence
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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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Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, the most notorious figure in the sex scandal that rocked the Boston Archdiocese, was convicted Monday of repeatedly raping and fondling a boy at his Roman Catholic church during the 1980s.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.  - Defrocked priest Paul Shanley  was convicted on Monday on all counts of raping a boy in the  1980s in one of the most high-profile cases to stem from a U.S.  Catholic Church clergy abuse scandal.
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In a twelve to one vote, a church jury assembled of fellow clergy has convicted the Rev. Irene Elizabeth Stroud, an associate pastor with the First United Method Church of Germantown, for violating the denominationâs ban on gay clergy.
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Michael Devlin received one final sentence Friday Â 170 years Â for making pornography of a boy he kidnapped and sexually assaulted.
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The doctor who pleaded guilty to conspiring to illegally prescribe steroids to several Carolina Panthers was sentenced Monday to one year and one day in prison.
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The defrocked Irish priest who sabotaged the Olympic Marathon vowed today that his illegal stunt days are over. Cornelius Horan, 57, was given a one-year suspended sentence by a Greek court after attacking
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A Bahraini human rights activist was convicted of inciting hatred of the government and sentenced to one year in prison on Sunday in a case linked to his criticism of the prime minister.
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BOSTON -- 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, sometimes in a church confessional.
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Three men who have been linked to the Irish republican movement were sentenced to 17 years in prison yesterday by a top Colombian court that overturned their acquittal for training leftist guerrillas in ...
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A former Protestant guerrilla was  sentenced to life imprisonment on Thursday for the murder of  Catholic lawyer Pat Finucane, one of the most controversial  killings in 30 years of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland.
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A court convicts an ex-priest of raping a boy in the 1980s in a scandal which has shaken the Church in Boston.
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The United Methodist Church defrocked a lesbian minister who lives with her partner Thursday for violating the denomination's ban on actively gay clergy &#151; the first such decision by the church in 17 years.
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A County Londonderry priest is acquitted on two charges of sexually abusing a teenager 30 years ago.
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Four Massachusetts priests accused of  sexually abusing children have been defrocked by the Vatican,  the Archdiocese of Boston said in a statement released on  Friday.
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A 79-year-old nun was sentenced Friday to one year in a county jail for sexually abusing two teens when she was their principal four decades ago.
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ATHENS, Greece  - A Greek court Monday gave a  former Irish priest a suspended 12-month jail sentence and a  $3,600 fine for pushing a leading Olympic marathon runner off  the road, a court source said.