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...church hierarchy has done everything in its power to hush it up, pay secret damages to the victims and, in many cases, do nothing but reassign pedophile priests to other parishes, where they can commit abuse again. In one of the worst cases, that of the Rev. John Geoghan, the church hierarchy had responded to clear evidence of his depravity by moving the now defrocked priest around for almost two decades--as he continued his pattern of molestation of minors. Last week he was sentenced to nine to 10 years for indecent assault and battery...
SENTENCED. JOHN GEOGHAN, 66, defrocked Roman Catholic priest convicted last month of sexually molesting a 10-year-old boy; to the maximum of nine to 10 years in prison; in Cambridge, Mass...
...successful. The State of Connecticut imposed a 20-year prison sentence. This was more than three times the sentence recently imposed in Massachusetts on a hockey dad for killing another hockey dad; it was twice as long as the sentence imposed on the former Rev. John J. Geoghan for child molestation. Is this justice “under God and law”? I did not ask the judge for an acquittal, only for a sentence that would be consistent with those meted out for what I consider more serious offenses than Lasaga?...
...church-run schools there. Meanwhile, a Tucson, Ariz., diocese settled for an undisclosed sum with former altar boys who said they were molested by their priest, a quiet deal that typifies how these cases are handled in the U.S. Less common is the very public court battle of John Geoghan, a priest who has so far cost the Archdiocese of Boston more than $10 million to settle just some of the pedophilia suits he faces. A Boston Globe investigation revealed last week that as many as 70 priests in Boston came to the attention of church officials there...
CONVICTED. JOHN GEOGHAN, 66, defrocked priest; of indecent assault and battery for fondling a 10-year-old boy at a swimming pool in 1991; in Cambridge, Mass. Geoghan plans to appeal but still faces 84 civil lawsuits over the sexual abuse of children...