Priest gets 4½-5 years

Cambridge, Massachusetts -- A Catholic priest who admitted repeatedly raping an altar boy over a four- to five-year period at a parish in Waltham during the early 1980s was sentenced yesterday to 4-to-5 years in state prison.

Middlesex Superior Court Judge Charles M. Grabau also sentenced the Rev. Robert Gale to an additional 25 years of probation after his release and ordered him to have no unsupervised contact with anyone under age 16. The sentence, shorter than the 10- to 12-year term sought by prosecutors and based on sentencing rules in effect at the time the abuse occurred, was given after an emotional hearing during which the victim and his family criticized the 63-year-old priest for not showing more remorse.

read the article at boston.com dated December 2, 2004

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