Fr. John J. White

Ordained: 1957
Status: Accused

Died: 02/16/2004
Diocese: Archdiocese of Boston MA

Close friend, business partner, traveling companion and associate of later convicted priest Paul Shanley. White and Shanley were accused in 9/2003 of abuse of the same boy in the 1970s. White moved to Thailand in 2002 and died in 2004. In 8/2011 the Boston archdiocese list reported no formal determination of guilt either because White died prior to a canonical or criminal investigation or it was not complete at his death.


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