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Today in History: February 15, former priest sentenced on child rape charges

Also on this date, President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt in Miami

CAMBRIDGE, MA – FEBRUARY 15: Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, a central figure in the Boston Archdiocese clergy sex abuse scandal, is led from court in handcuffs following his sentencing in Middlesex Superior Court February 15, 2005 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Shanley was sentenced 12 to 15 years in prison for raping a boy repeatedly in the 1980s. (Photo by Charles Krupa-Pool/Getty Images)
CAMBRIDGE, MA – FEBRUARY 15: Defrocked priest Paul Shanley, a central figure in the Boston Archdiocese clergy sex abuse scandal, is led from court in handcuffs following his sentencing in Middlesex Superior Court February 15, 2005 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Shanley was sentenced 12 to 15 years in prison for raping a boy repeatedly in the 1980s. (Photo by Charles Krupa-Pool/Getty Images)
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Defrocked priest Paul Shanley was sentenced in Boston to 12 to 15 years in prison on child rape charges.

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