Seems Boston’s Cardinal Law (through his lawyer) is playing the “blame the victim” game. Unbelievable. Note to the Cardinal’s lawyer: “Nuts and sluts” worked on Paula Jones and Monical Lewinski. It won’t work on six year old boys.

An excerpt:

In his first legal response to charges that the Rev. Paul R. Shanley began molesting a Newton boy when he was 6 years old, Cardinal Bernard F. Law has asserted that ”negligence” by the boy and his parents contributed to the alleged abuse…

”To say my son is legally responsible for his own abuse at the hands of this monster Shanley when my son was only 6 years old is horrific,” Rodney Ford, the father of Gregory Ford, said in an interview.

Inexplicably stupid.

(For more on the scandal, check out Andrew Sullivan’s first and third posts this morning, which include details of rumors that Law may actually be rewarded by Rome for sheltering pederastic priests.)

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