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PRIEST SLAY WAS WEEKS IN MAKING
New York Post ^ | 8/26/03 | AP

Posted on 08/26/2003 12:34:57 AM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:16:12 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

August 26, 2003 -- BOSTON - The suspect in the prison cell slaying of defrocked pedophile priest John Geoghan planned the killing weeks in advance, a prosecutor said yesterday.

Joseph Druce, a fellow inmate in the maximum security prison in Shirley, tore apart a book to make a tool for jamming the door of Geoghan's cell, Worcester District Attorney John Conte said. Druce, who's serving a life term for killing a gay man, "has a longstanding phobia, it appears, toward homosexuals of any kind . . . He is filled with longstanding hate," Conte said.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: geoghan; jailhousejustice; pedofile; pedophile

1 posted on 08/26/2003 12:34:57 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
"has a longstanding phobia, it appears, toward homosexuals of any kind . . . He is filled with longstanding hate,"

Phobia and hate...seem contradictory. Was the man killed because he was homosexual or because he was a pedophile? Isn't the main issue that someone was murdered and that a person has confessed?

2 posted on 08/26/2003 12:39:19 AM PDT by Ruth A.
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To: Ruth A.
One hypothesis is he was silenced to coverup the
already covered-up $$$$$$$-for-child-rape scheme
organized by the Law, and covered up by his friend, the AG.
3 posted on 08/26/2003 2:50:58 AM PDT by Diogenesis (If you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us)
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To: Diogenesis
Dio, I don't know if I can agree with you. The prison culture is something few are familiar with. It's probably quite a coup for Druce to kill someone famous, and if it wasn't Goeghan, he probably would've found someone else with notoriety. That Druce was in the same cell block as Goeghan made him overjoyed. Druce spent as much time planning Goeghan's murder as other cons do planning an escape.
4 posted on 08/26/2003 4:34:34 AM PDT by Catspaw
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To: Diogenesis
"One hypothesis is he was silenced to coverup the
already covered-up $$$$$$$-for-child-rape scheme
organized by the Law, and covered up by his friend,
the AG."

MY hypothesis is that what comes around goes around. He got what was coming to him. Justice is done. The end.


5 posted on 08/26/2003 6:46:52 AM PDT by Revenge Of Daffy-Duck ( { Viva Bush! Viva Double-U! })
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To: Catspaw
I've also heard that prison culture includes hatred of child molesters.
6 posted on 08/26/2003 7:23:07 AM PDT by rightazrain
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To: rightazrain
Child molesters, baby killers and child rapists are the lowest of the low in the prison culture.

But factor in the violent gang culture in prison, and the last job I'd choose would be a prison guard.

7 posted on 08/26/2003 7:32:56 AM PDT by Catspaw
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