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FILE - This undated identification photo released Friday, July 28, 2017, via the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board website shows former Roman Catholic priest Paul Shanley, an inmate at the Old Colony Correctional Center in Bridgewater, Mass. Shanley, who played a pivotal role in the sexual abuse scandal that rocked the Archdiocese of Boston died Friday, Nov. 6, 2020, authorities said. He was 89. (Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board via AP, File)

Paul Shanley, priest at center of sex scandal, dead at 89

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FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2005 file photo, defrocked priest Paul Shanley, a figure in the sex scandal that rocked the Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese, stands prior to the reading of a verdict in his trial at Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge, Mass. A group representing survivors of priest sex abuse is calling for Shanley, a former Boston priest recently released from prison, to be placed in a secure treatment facility far from children. The 86-year-old served 12-years in prison for the rape of a boy in the 1980s. (Mark Garfinkel/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool, File)

The Latest: Attorney says priest freed from prison ‘frail’

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FILE- In this July 28, 2017, file photo, former Catholic priest Paul Shanley arrives to an apartment minutes after a mattress and box spring is delivered in Ware, Mass. A group representing survivors of priest sex abuse is calling for Shanley, a former Boston priest recently released from prison, to be placed in a secure treatment facility far from children. (Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via AP, File)

Abuse survivors say ex-priest should be kept far from kids

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FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2005 file photo, defrocked priest Paul Shanley, a figure in the sex scandal that rocked the Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese, stands prior to the reading of a verdict in his trial at Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge, Mass. Shanley was convicted of raping and fondling a boy at his Roman Catholic church during the 1980s and sentenced to 12 years in prison. Shanley is due to be released Friday, July 28, 2017. (Mark Garfinkel/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool, File)

The Latest: Pedophile ex-priest lives near studio for kids

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FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2005 file photo, defrocked priest Paul Shanley, a figure in the sex scandal that rocked the Boston Roman Catholic Archdiocese, stands prior to the reading of a verdict in his trial at Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge, Mass. Shanley was convicted of raping and fondling a boy at his Roman Catholic church during the 1980s and sentenced to 12 years in prison. Shanley is due to be released Friday, July 28, 2017. (Mark Garfinkel/The Boston Herald via AP, Pool, File)

Ex-priest in Boston sex abuse scandal released from prison

By MARK PRATT and DENISE LAVOIE - Associated Press

FILE--In this Feb. 15, 2005 file photo defrocked priest Paul Shanley is led from Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge, Mass. in handcuffs following his sentence of 12 to 15 years in prison for raping a boy repeatedly in the 1980s. Prosecutors in Massachusetts say that Shanley, one of the most notorious figures in the Boston clergy sex abuse scandal, has completed his sentence on child rape charges and will be released from prison this week. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Sex abuse victims seek help to track ex-priest’s whereabouts

By DENISE LAVOIE - Associated Press

FILE--In this Jan. 31, 2005 file photo, defrocked priest Paul Shanley listens during testimony in his trial at Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge, Mass. Prosecutors in Massachusetts say one of the most notorious figures in the Boston clergy sex abuse scandal has completed his sentence on child rape charges and will be released from prison this week. Shanley was known in the 1960s and '70s for being a hip &quot;street priest&quot; who reached out to troubled youths. But in 2005, he was convicted of repeatedly raping and fondling a boy at a suburban parish in the 1980s. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Priest at center of clergy sex abuse scandal to be released

By DENISE LAVOIE - Associated Press