World News Tonight (ABC) - 2002-05-02

Name: World News Tonight (ABC) - 2002-05-02
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[0:03] [music]

[0:05] On World News Tonight, a Roman Catholic

[0:07] priest at the center of a sex abuse

[0:09] [music] scandal is charged with raping a

[0:11] child. The Palestinian leader, Yaser

[0:13] Arafat, now that he's out of his prison,

[0:16] what can the Israelis expect? He talks

[0:18] to Ted Cppel. The government says today

[0:21] that seat belts for children on a school

[0:23] bus may actually be a danger to them. A

[0:27] new generation about to retire and they

[0:29] will be worse off than their parents

[0:30] were. We'll take a closer look at some

[0:33] dire projections.

[0:35] And [music] this is the robo rat. Is he

[0:38] a search and rescue rat for the future?

[0:41] Technology on the cutting edge.

[0:45] [music]

[0:47] From ABC News World Headquarters in New

[0:50] York, this is World News Tonight with

[0:53] [music] Peter Jennings.

[0:54] >> Good evening everyone. We begin this

[0:55] evening with another major development

[0:57] for the Roman Catholic Church. The

[0:59] church has been consumed by scandal for

[1:01] much of the spring and today in San

[1:03] Diego, police arrested a priest, one

[1:05] father Paul Shanley, who is charged with

[1:08] repeatedly raping a young boy in

[1:10] Massachusetts. The significance of this

[1:12] beyond the case itself has to do with

[1:14] the troubled arch dasis of Boston. The

[1:17] powerful cardinal there, Bernard Law, is

[1:19] accused of concealing information about

[1:22] Father Shanley's crimes. ABC's Ron

[1:25] Claybourne begins our reporting tonight

[1:27] from Boston. Ron,

[1:29] >> Peter, it was believed that Father

[1:31] Shanley was out of the country this last

[1:32] month since abruptly leaving his home,

[1:35] but this morning he was taken into

[1:37] custody at his home in San Diego.

[1:40] >>