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PEDOPHILE PRIEST GEOGHAN MURDERED IN PRISON
drudge | 8-23-03 | drudge

Posted on 08/23/2003 12:58:03 PM PDT by TheRedSoxWinThePennant

Edited on 08/23/2003 1:11:48 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Geoghan killed in prison (Boston Herald)
Breaking news/by Eric Convey
Saturday, August 23, 2003

Former priest John Geoghan, a notorious pedophile whose case sparked the clergy molestation scandal of the past 18 months, died this afternoon after being attacked at the state prison in Shirley.

``The perpetrator has been isolated,'' said Kelly Nantell, a spokeswoman for the state Deparment of Corrections.

``Our investigation continues,'' she said.

The matter has been referred to the Middlesex County District Attorney Martha Coakley's office.

Geoghan was serving a nine-to-10 year sentence at MCI Shirley for allegedly groping a boy at a Waltham swimming pool.

More than 140 people have claimed they were abused by Geoghan, claiming they were fondled or raped at locations ranging from church rectories to their own homes.

Geoghan would become one the most notorious pedophiles in the country - not only for the extent of his rampage against children but because relevations about his case led to the unraveling of secrecy within the Archdiocese of Boston.

Bernard Cardinal Law's cordial letters to Geoghan, mixing discipline with praise for his priestly service, that pushed many victims from disbelief to outrage.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: boston; childrapist; geoghan; getlawnext; homosexual; homosexualagenda; prisoners; vigilanteism
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
He is the one that cardinal law ...bounced...

Ummm, Bernie bounced more than one, including a priest that tried to "do the right thing" and start to clean up the mess.

And he [Bernard Cardinal Law] didn't bounce quite a few, too.

Maybe he should have tried to bounce them out of the priesthood, not just in to another diocese.

41 posted on 08/23/2003 1:12:39 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
Fox doing a News Alert.
42 posted on 08/23/2003 1:12:39 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
In lieu of execution by the state of Massachussetts this will just have to do. A convict did what "the state" was too gutless to do.

Our legal establishment failed us so a scorned and lowly jailbird had to set it right. A lowly jailbird was given the task of balancing the scales of justice
43 posted on 08/23/2003 1:12:55 PM PDT by dennisw (G_d is at war with Amalek for all generations)
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
Aw shucks...he didn't have to ride the " IRON MARE".
45 posted on 08/23/2003 1:13:05 PM PDT by jetson
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
He looks like Billy Bulger! What a way for an old, pathetic man(pervert) to leave this mortal coil....
46 posted on 08/23/2003 1:13:50 PM PDT by habs4ever
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To: Guillermo
You're kidding,right?
47 posted on 08/23/2003 1:15:00 PM PDT by John W
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To: Walkin Man
I only hope his victims feel a little better now that this "priest" has gone on to his eternal reward..........

It helps them to see justice finally rendered. This ghoul ruined the lives of too many who trusted him. Traumatized too many.
48 posted on 08/23/2003 1:15:18 PM PDT by dennisw (G_d is at war with Amalek for all generations)
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To: HiTech RedNeck
I never said that it was tough on crime. It was intended to be malicious.

It is morally acceptable to hate criminals.
49 posted on 08/23/2003 1:15:23 PM PDT by TheAngryClam (TOM McCLINTOCK is my choice for governor. He should be yours too.)
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
"He is the one that cardinal law and the catholic church higher up bounced around the country due to his tendency to rape small boys"

I wonder how many of his enablers will attend his funeral. I'm sure he was given the Last Rites even if he was dead, and he'll probably get a Catholic burial...the creep!

50 posted on 08/23/2003 1:16:08 PM PDT by mass55th
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
In prison, his petname was probably Shirley.......
51 posted on 08/23/2003 1:16:14 PM PDT by b4its2late (All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.)
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To: FITZ
Why? He's just as dead either way and this way is much cheaper. He probably asked for it by trying to do to a fellow prisoner what he had been doing to young boys.

Why ? Because the convicts are as likely to rape and sodomize you as him. When the prison culture is unopposed it spreads. It becomes cool. People even joke about it and then it becomes an expected rite of passage. The weak and innocent suffer as much as the weak and guilty.

For example you could be protesting at a rally in any one of hundreds of American cities and find yourself locked up among animals. Who will care what happens to you if prison justice is expected, tolerated, or cheered ?

Your temporary residence may hate whites, conservatives, middle class, etc. and take it out on anyone they perceive to fit that class.

52 posted on 08/23/2003 1:16:22 PM PDT by af_vet_1981
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To: habs4ever
Golly does the man look evil.

Jesus said it is better not to be born, than to hurt an innocant child.
53 posted on 08/23/2003 1:16:23 PM PDT by joyful1
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To: elbucko
This was neither. It was merely a murder committed in prison. Nothing more, nothing less. To impart some kind of political or moral meaning to this incident is to see that which is not there.

Depends if the prison killer(s ) had a particular motive.

54 posted on 08/23/2003 1:16:38 PM PDT by cyncooper
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To: adam_az
he didn't get a death sentence.

The problem in a nutshell.

Rectified.

56 posted on 08/23/2003 1:17:04 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
You mean that the prisoners, who generally hate pedophiles the worst because so many of them were preyed upon as kids don't even care that he may have been a misunderstood gay man trying to come out of the closet?

Maybe we should lobby for priests to be allowed to marry little boys and that would solve the problem.

</bitter sarcasm>

57 posted on 08/23/2003 1:17:05 PM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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To: adam_az
I hope the perpetrator is caught and prosecuted. Who will they determine they have the "right" to kill next?

I think a fitting punishment for the perpetrator would be to reprimand him and then quietly transfer him to another prison.

59 posted on 08/23/2003 1:17:42 PM PDT by murdoog (i just changed my tag line)
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To: adam_az
>So murderers will have their sentence reduced by killing non-violent offenders in jail for tax fraud or marijuana cultivation, and be back on the streets sooner based on their proficiency at murdering?
>>That isn't "tough on crime." It's STUPID!

If every felon
had their head chopped off at their
conviction, problems

like prison murders --
and oh so many others! --
would just disappear!

60 posted on 08/23/2003 1:18:16 PM PDT by theFIRMbss
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