BOSTON (MA)
The Daily Beast
Luke O’Neil
The family of Shaun Harrison, the Boston English dean and reverend accused of shooting a student who went afoul of his alleged drug ring, may have helped cover up church sex abuse.
The story of Shaun Harrison—the Boston reverend, public school dean, and anti-violence community activist accused of the shooting of one his students, an apparent employee of his alleged drug-dealing operation—seems almost too outlandish to be true. Many have compared it to something out of a movie, but with its overstuffed combination of drugs, religion, public schools, and violence, it’s the type you’d likely walk out of on account of its heavy-handedness.
But the story got even more distressing this week, as the details of his son’s alleged molestation at the hands of a fellow youth minister resurfaced.
Many in the Boston community in which he worked have rightly asked how Harrison, who was arraigned in Roxbury Municipal Court on Monday on additional gun and drug charges stemming from a search of his home earlier this month, could have flown under the radar for so long. He pleaded not guilty.
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