Word: geoghan
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Maloney, who came under criticism after former priest John J. Geoghan died in August as a result of being assaulted by another inmate in a state correctional facility, was asked to resign along with two other public safety officials by Governor W. Mitt Romney...
Despite the shocking nature of his murder, I hate to admit that I wasn’t entirely surprised. Just this past August, convicted sex-offender and defrocked priest John Geoghan was also murdered, in a Mass. jail...
...Geoghan alone gathered over 130 accusations in his thirty-year career before finally being defrocked in 1998, and yet was only charged and convicted on one single count of indecent assault and battery of a ten-year-old boy. Pilger, after admitting to assaulting three boys, only received probation. It’s insulting to think that a man found guilty of indecently assaulting three young boys and potentially scarring them for life would be let off with probation, regardless of the fact that he’s a priest or in his 70’s. If anything...
...Massachusetts correctional system began to fail Geoghan early on. According to The New York Times, he endured guards’ taunting, contaminated food and excrement placed on his bed in the first prison he was placed. It has also been reported that the guards in the maximum security prison to which Geoghan was moved had been warned that Druce was acting suspiciously outside of Geoghan’s cell, well before the murder took place...
...Geoghan was a monster of a man, but he was sentenced to nine to ten years in prison and not to death. No matter how evil some criminals might be, and however much their behavior might abhor decent people, when they are sentenced to prison they deserve a safe environment...