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	John Geoghan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John J. Geoghan (about 1935 - August 23, 2003) was a key figure in the Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandals that rocked the Boston Archdiocese in the 1990s and 2000s, and eventually led to the resignation of Bernard Cardinal Law on December 13, 2002.
		Geoghan was a graduate of Cardinal O'Connell Seminary, and was ordained in 1962.
		The trial included testimony from the victim; from a psychiatrist, Dr. Edward Messner, who treated Geoghan for his sexual fantasies about children from 1994-1996; and from Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes, who testified that he banned Geoghan from the swimming club after a complaint that he had been proselytizing and had had prurient conversations there.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Geoghan (464 words)

	Encyclopedia: John Geoghan
		Geoghan, who was defrocked in 1998, was serving a sentence of 9 to 10 years at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, a medium-security state prison 40 miles northwest of Boston.
		Geoghan was ousted from the priesthood in 1998 at the urging of Cardinal Bernard Law.
		Geoghan was convicted in January 2002 for grabbing the buttocks of a 10-year-old boy in 1991 in the first of three criminal cases against him.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/John-Geoghan (1515 words)

	Geoghan
		Geoghan's murder robs his other victims of their day in court, but it should also offend every citizen's sense of justice: we do not leave it for prisoners to pass sentences and carry them out.
		Geoghan's celebrity — he was the priest whose malfeasance ignited the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church — should have made prison officials all the more careful about his placement.
		Geoghan, while prison officials have pledged to "get to the bottom of this." Yet anyone who has worked in a prison can't help but wonder how similar the murder of John Geoghan, surely one of the most despised men in Massachusetts, might have been to the one in the play.
	www.tedconover.com /geoghan.html (642 words)

	Abusive Ex-Priest, John Geoghan, Is Killed in Prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Geoghan was convicted of groping a 10-year-old boy in a pool and given the maximum sentence.
		Geoghan achieved nationwide notoriety, the abuses by James Porter of the Fall River, Mass., diocese became widely known in the early 1990's, and the same was true of Rudolph Kos in the Dallas Diocese about five years later.
		Geoghan was attacked shortly before noon and was pronounced dead at the University of Massachusetts Memorial Health Alliance Hospital in Leominster at 1:17 p.m., the prosecutor said.
	www.snapnetwork.org /news/massachusetts/boston/geoghan_murder.htm (1140 words)

	Boston.com / News
		Geoghan was injured in an incident with another inmate about noon and died shortly after being taken to Leominster Hospital, said Department Of Correction spokeswoman Kelly Nantel.
		Geoghan was being held in protective custody to shield him from the general prison population, but he still had some contact with other inmates, Nantel said.
		The Geoghan case was one of several that led to Law resigning in December over his mishandling of abuse cases.
	www.boston.com /news/daily/23/mass_geoghan.htm (678 words)

	USATODAY.com - Convicted priest Geoghan killed in prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		BOSTON (AP) — Former priest John Geoghan, a convicted child molester at the center of the sex abuse scandal that shook the Catholic church nationwide, died after apparently being strangled by a fellow inmate convicted of murder, authorities said.
		Geoghan was being held in protective custody to shield him from the general prison population, but he still had some contact with other inmates who were also in protective custody.
		Geoghan was convicted in January 2002 for grabbing the buttocks of a 10-year-old boy in 1991.
	www.usatoday.com /news/religion/2003-08-23-geoghan_x.htm (1129 words)

	Boston Globe / Spotlight / Abuse in the Catholic Church / The Geoghan case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		John Geoghan stands out as one of the worst serial molesters in the recent history of the Catholic Church in America.
		Despite his disturbing pattern of abusive behavior, Geoghan was transferred from parish to parish for years before the church finally defrocked him in 1998.
		In February 2002, Geoghan was sentenced to nine to 10 years in state prison for molesting a 10-year-old boy at a pool in Waltham.
	www.boston.com /globe/spotlight/abuse/geoghan (295 words)

	New Zealand News - World - Paedophile priest killed in US prison attack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		John Geoghan, a defrocked Boston-area priest and convicted child rapist, was killed in prison.
		BOSTON - Defrocked priest John Geoghan, a central figure in the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal, was killed today by a fellow-inmate in the prison where he was serving a sentence for child rape, a state prisons official said.
		Geoghan sustained serious injury and was brought to Leominster Hospital where we was pronounced dead shortly before 2 pm," said Kelly Nantel, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Department of Corrections.
	www.heart7.net /news/paedophile-priest-killed-prison.htm (463 words)

	Catholic World News : Former priest, focus of Boston scandal, killed in prison
		Geoghan, who was convicted last year on a single charge of having fondled a young boy at a swimming pool, had been the focus of hundreds of sex-abuse charges.
		Geoghan was able to prey on his victims because he was shuffled in and out of circumstances that made it easy for him to ply his trade without threat of intervention by the authorities.
		John Geoghan was not sentenced to death by the courts.
	www.cwnews.com /news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=24280 (1037 words)

	CNN.com - Priest found guilty of molestation - January 18, 2002
		Defendant John Geoghan was defrocked as a priest in 1998.
		The gray-haired Geoghan stood expressionless as the verdict was read, and then sat down and removed an American flag pin from the lapel of his navy blue suit before he was led away.
		Geoghan, she said, was a familiar figure in the neighborhood, often taking children out for ice cream and bowling.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/LAW/01/18/priest.verdict (677 words)

	Voice Of the Faithful
		The death of John J. Geoghan is a tragic development in a long trail of tragedies connected with the clergy sexual abuse crisis.
		Geoghan became a symbol of the sexual of abuse of children by clergy.
		John J. Geoghan was the catalyst for actions to bring new standards of episcopal accountability to the Catholic Church.
	www.votf.org /Press/pressrelease/0824.html (484 words)

	Pilot Stories -8/29/2003 - Former priest John Geoghan murdered in prison
		Former priest, John Geoghan, who reportedly molested dozens of boys over three decades, was murdered in his prison cell Aug. 23, while serving a nine to 10-year sentence for assault and battery on a 10-year-old boy.
		Geoghan’s attacker, a reputed racist and member of the neo-Nazi Aryan Nation, was serving a life sentence for the 1988 murder of George Rollo, a bus driver from Gloucester.
		Geoghan had been moved from the state prison in Concord to protective custody at the Shirley facility in April because he feared for his safety.
	www.rcab.org /Pilot/2003/ps030829/Geoghan.html (799 words)

	fr. john geoghan
		Authorities said Geoghan, 68, was bound, beaten and strangled to death in his cell Aug. 23 by inmate Joseph L. Druce, who is already serving a life sentence for the 1988 murder of a gay man. The attack occurred in the protective custody unit at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum security prison in Shirley.
		Geoghan had been accused in civil lawsuits of sexual misconduct with nearly 150 minors, ranging from indecent exposure to fondling to rape.
		Geoghan served as a Boston priest for more than 30 years, despite several complaints of child molestation, before he was finally suspended from ministry in 1994.
	www.catholicherald.com /cns/geoghan0828.htm (984 words)

	Ex-priest Geoghan killed in prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Former priest John Geoghan, the convicted child molester whose prosecution sparked the sex abuse scandal that shook the Roman Catholic Church nationwide, died Saturday after being attacked in prison.
		Geoghan was being held in protective custody to shield him from the general prison population, but he had some contact with other inmates in protective custody.
		Geoghan was convicted in January 2002 of indecent assault and battery for grabbing the buttocks of a 10-year-old boy in 1991 in the first of three criminal cases against him.
	www.msnbc.com /news/956496.asp?0cv=CB10&cp1=1 (589 words)

	John Geoghan,
		After Geoghan's case was made public, scores of other victims came forward throughout the country, and the Catholic church faced resounding criticism for its handling of the crisis.
		John Geoghan, - John Geoghan, defrocked priest, was killed in a Massachusetts prison in August by fellow inmate...
		Preying on the Predator: In prison, John Geoghan, once the abuser, became the victim.
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0900666.html (374 words)

	CNN.com - Ex-priest given 9-10 years in prison - March 12, 2002
		Geoghan, 66, was convicted last month of indecent assault and battery against a 10-year-old boy in 1991.
		Geoghan had been expected to go on trial Wednesday for the child rape, but the start of the trial has been delayed while the judge in the case considers motions.
		The Rev. John J. Bagley, a former official at the Vatican, was placed on administrative leave Wednesday by Bishop Daniel P. Reilly, according to diocesan spokesman Raymond L. Delisle.
	www.cnn.com /2002/LAW/02/21/priest..abuse.trial/index.html (545 words)

	Online NewsHour: Church in Crisis -- August 25, 2003
		RAY SUAREZ: Convicted pedophile and former priest John Geoghan was serving a nine- to ten-year sentence at the maximum-security Souza-Baranowski Correctional Facility in Shirley, Massachusetts.
		JOHN CONTE, District Attorney, Worcester County: He then stuffed a half of a book into the upper track of the cell door, so that it could not be opened electronically.
		And I don't think the death of John Geoghan is going to have an impact on that process, at least I certainly hope it doesn't.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/religion/july-dec03/geoghan_8-25.html (1892 words)

	John Geoghan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		On February 21, John J. Geoghan, 66, a former priest, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for fondling a 10-year-old boy.
		Even worse than the terrible harm that this man has done throughout his years as a priest is the fact that, had the Church acted responsibly, it all could have been avoided.
		April 4, 1994 - Mother says Geoghan abused her son while he was at St. Paul's in Hingham.
	www.kenanderson.net /bible/john_geoghan.html (981 words)

	Boston.com / News / Special reports / John Geoghan: Abuser, inmate,victim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Geoghan claimed he was being abused by Correction officers at MCI-Concord.
		Geoghan's gravesite at Holyhood Cemetery in Brookline, where he was buried on Aug. 28, 2003.
		Geoghan was a strange sort of inmate, a man with remarkably little self-awareness.
	www.boston.com /news/specials/geoghan (266 words)

	USATODAY.com - Inmate found guilty of murdering Geoghan in prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		At the time of the slaying, Geoghan was serving up to 10 years in prison for fondling a 10-year-old boy, but was accused in lawsuits of molesting some 150 youngsters.
		Geoghan's slaying led to sharp criticism of the prison system for allowing a notorious child-molesting priest like Geoghan to be put in the same unit as Druce, a convicted killer.
		After Geoghan's slaying, authorities found serious failures in the inmate classification system, disciplinary procedures and investigative practices of the Correction Department, but no evidence that guards set Geoghan up to be killed.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2006-01-25-geoghan_x.htm (937 words)

	Pedophile Priest: The Crimes of Father Geoghan by Denise Noe
		Geoghan was an outgoing, amiable man with a talent for making others believe he was deeply interested in them.
		In the time-honored tradition of blaming the victim, Geoghan indicated that the reason he targeted children from poorer families was that, ''the children were just so affectionate, I got caught up in their acts of affection.
		Geoghan was indicted by a grand jury of the Middlesex Superior Court for indecent assault and battery on Dec. 2, 1999.
	crimemagazine.com /03/geoghan,1201.htm (4126 words)

	CNN.com - Priest in sex abuse scandal killed in prison - Aug. 23, 2003
		John Geoghan, a defrocked Roman Catholic priest and convicted child molester, died Saturday after he was assaulted in prison, a spokeswoman for the Massachusetts Department of Corrections told CNN.
		Geoghan was injured during an incident with another inmate about noon and died shortly after being taken to Leominster Hospital, Department Of Corrections spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said.
		Geoghan became a central figure in the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal.
	www.cnn.com /2003/US/08/23/geoghan/index.html (685 words)

	NCR News Blog: The Killing of John Geoghan
		John Geoghan, a former Boston priest convicted of sexual abuse who was forcibly laicized in 1998, was bound, gagged and strangled Aug. 23 in his cell on the protective-custody unit of a Massachusetts state prison.
		Even some of his victims agreed that John J. Geoghan, the defrocked Roman Catholic priest in prison for sexually abusing young boys, didn't deserve to die in the brutal fashion in which he was murdered by another inmate.
		As a child molester, and a central figure in the Catholic Church's sexual abuse scandal, the defrocked priest John Geoghan was a predictable target for violence...
	www.nationalcatholicreporter.org /todaystake/tt082703.htm (759 words)

	NameTraq \| Last Name: Geoghan
		In August, the rapist of children, John J. Geoghan, was murdered by a fellow inmate at a prison in Massachusetts.
		Pedophile and defrocked priest John Geoghan was murdered in prison by Darrin E. Smiledge, born in Danvers.
		A central figure in Boston's Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, former priest John Geoghan, was killed in prison allegedly by a fellow inmate in August.
	www.nametraq.com /genealogy_jan04/G/Geoghan.shtml (1197 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Paedophile priest killed in jail
		John Geoghan, a central figure in the Catholic Church's abuse scandal in Boston, was injured in an incident with another inmate at the Souza-Baranowski Correction Center, in Shirley, Massachusetts, according to jail officials.
		Geoghan's case eventually resulted in a multi-million dollar settlement with 86 of his alleged victims.
		Mitchell Garabedian, an attorney for many of Geoghan's alleged victims told Reuters news agency that he was "surprised and shocked" by the former priest's death.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/3177021.stm (510 words)

	SEE NO EVIL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After all, others who were allegedly assaulted by Geoghan claim in court documents that their parents had complained to Geoghan's superiors about his behavior with children as far back as 1973 -- that's 12 years before the then-priest allegedly molested Keane.
		JOHN "JACK" Geoghan (who declined through his sister Catherine to be interviewed for this article) first swept into the lives of the Catholic faithful in 1962.
		Geoghan, after all, was a priest; and, as McSorley puts it, "priests were supposed to be good, holy men." As Catholics, victims like McSorley had been taught that priests speak for God.
	www.worcesterphoenix.com /archive/features/01/03/29/LAW.html (6716 words)

	CNN.com - Sex abuse priest killed in prison - Feb. 23, 2004
		Former Catholic priest John Geoghan is killed in a Massachusetts prison while serving time on child sex abuse charges.
		Geoghan, 68, was assaulted around noon, then taken by ambulance to nearby Leominster Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:17 p.m., according to a news release from Conte's office.
		Geoghan was found guilty in January 2002 of molesting a boy in a swimming pool a decade earlier and sentenced to nine to 10 years in prison.
	cnnstudentnews.cnn.com /2003/US/08/24/geoghan (713 words)

	Geoghan is killed in prison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Geoghan was serving a 9- to 10-year sentence on a 2002 conviction for indecent assault and battery on a 10-year-old boy.
		Geoghan's death was of particular concern to him.
		The Geoghan case was fueled by revelations last year that the Boston Archdiocese had repeatedly reassigned him to new parishes.
	www.telegram.com /static/crisisinthechurch/082403.html (1299 words)

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