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...Geoghan was strangled and beaten to death in the protective custody unit of a maximum security prison in Worcester, Mass. last month. His alleged killer was Joseph Druce, an inmate with a history of violent outbursts. The two were in the same cell block despite the facts that Geoghan’s crimes were well known among the inmate population and Druce was serving a life term for the similarly brutal 1988 murder of a man he believed to be homosexual...
...looked upon Father Geoghan as a prize." JOHN J. CONTE, district attorney in Worcester, Mass., on Joseph L. Druce, who is accused of killing convicted child molester and former priest John Geoghan...
DIED. JOHN GEOGHAN, 68, former priest imprisoned in 2002 for sexual abuse; after being attacked by a fellow inmate; in Boston. Revelations of Geoghan's misdeeds--130 people sued him for molesting them as children--led to a nationwide scandal for the Catholic Church after it was discovered that Geoghan and other similarly charged priests were moved to new parishes rather than prosecuted...
DIED. John J. Geoghan, 68, former Catholic priest and convicted child molester, after being strangled by an inmate serving a life sentence for killing a man he believed was gay; in a maximum security facility in Shirley, Massachusetts. Geoghan was accused of sexually abusing up to 150 boys during his 30 years as a priest, and last year was convicted of fondling a 10-year-old boy in Boston in 1991. After his sentencing, Geoghan was sent to the protective custody facility in Shirley because authorities worried he would be attacked by fellow inmates. Joseph L. Druce...
Cessario and Ammar defend Law’s administrative choices as archbishop, saying he followed the rules of the Church in allowing Geoghan and others to remain in their posts without notifying parishioners of their misconduct...