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	Victims Advocates Protest Paul Shanley's Bid for New Trial Associated Press, carried in Boston Herald May 29, 2008 http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view/2008_05_29_Victims_ advocates_protest_Paul_Shanley_s_bid_for_new_trial/srvc=home&position=recent Advocates for clergy sex abuse victims are outraged that a priest convicted of repeatedly raping and fondling a boy at a Newton parish in the 1980s is asking for a new trial. Defrocked priest Paul Shanley was in Suffolk Superior Court on Thursday for a hearing on his motion for a new trial. Shanley's new lawyer is challenging the repressed memories of Shanley's accuser. Shanley's accuser testified that Shanley repeatedly pulled him out of catechism class and raped and fondled him, beginning when he was 6 years old. He said he remembered the abuse in 2002, after the news media began reporting on the clergy abuse scandal in the Boston Archdiocese. Victims' advocates who attended the hearing said Shanley does not deserve a new trial.
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