The former priest who is completing a 12 year prison term for raping a boy in the 1980s will be released today and come to western Mass to live.
State officials have confirmed that Paul Shanley, the now 86 year old former Street Priest will be living in an apartment on Pulaski Street in Ware,
Shanley will be on probation for ten years. Some of his victims earlier in the week questioned whether he should have been released.