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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: onyx
To date, God has not seen fit to waste a single miracle on the cure of any pedophile!

And you know that how? Care to supply us with your source for that information?

301 posted on 08/23/2003 2:38:46 PM PDT by BlessedBeGod
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To: ppaul
The jails are full of child molesters.
302 posted on 08/23/2003 2:39:01 PM PDT by RobbyS
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To: SupplySider
In total agreement. Hard labor is a disincentive (sp?; word?) for a criminal.

But boy, I've got to say that something has to be done about the way in which defense, prosecuting attorneys, and judges approach the law.

For example, let's say a 4th Amendment right is violated. If indisputable evidence is uncovered in such a violation. The evidence should stand, and the transgressor of the amendment punished.

I'm not sure how we got to the 'it depends on what the meaning of 'is' is state of justice. I'd like to blame it on that reprobate Clinton, but unfortunately, it predates him and his accursed reign.

But that's just an example, and I'm willing to be educated if I'm missing the greater 'judicial' picture by my 4thA illustration. But something has to be done to get swift, ponderous and burdensome convictions.

303 posted on 08/23/2003 2:39:03 PM PDT by AlbionGirl (A kite flies highest against the wind, not with it. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Salvation
I know I'm welcome, because once a Catholic always a Catholic. I just got tired of all the liturgical abuses. I had a chance to go to Latin Mass(held at a VFW post for pete's sake), but all I had was a winter dress. I didn't want to go in shorts. It gets pretty hot in the desert, ya know? Of course when the San Bernardino diocese caught wind of this, it was kaput.

I'm interested in introducing my kids to the Latin Mass. I'm tired of going to Mass and hearing, "Hi Father Bob"!
304 posted on 08/23/2003 2:39:05 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (I need a new tag line)
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
....at least this monster is now in the 10th ring of hell ..... 1 less that the tax-payers have to woory about!
305 posted on 08/23/2003 2:39:42 PM PDT by Jackknife (OOO RAH to our troops!)
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To: FITZ
In the Bible there is something about if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out. I think eunuchs might be God's answer to rapists and pedophiles who want to live outside of prison.

I like your logic.

306 posted on 08/23/2003 2:39:51 PM PDT by onyx (Name an honest democrat? I can't either!)
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To: murdoog
I think a fitting punishment for the perpetrator would be to reprimand him and then quietly transfer him to another prison.

My guess is the perp is already in for life, so there's not much of anything they can do to him in the peace-loving, no-death-penalty People's Republic of Massachusetts. He had nothing to lose by killing Priest Pedo.

307 posted on 08/23/2003 2:40:03 PM PDT by Timesink
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To: Walkin Man
They feel better that murder has been committed for reasons unknown?
308 posted on 08/23/2003 2:41:24 PM PDT by RobbyS
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To: cake_crumb
They prey on weaker inmates. In this case it happened to be an inmate who deserved to be executed by the State. In another case it could be the torture or rape of a Freeper arrested for freeping Hillary Clinton or the child of a Freeper arrested for drunk driving. You can't support the culture and then be surprised when it permeates your world. The correct solution is to make the punishment fit the crime and to carry out the punishment with due process. He should have been executed by the State. There is no other proper outcome.
309 posted on 08/23/2003 2:41:33 PM PDT by af_vet_1981
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To: wardaddy
How will a gangbanger with their customary indiscriminate aim feel about that 3 year old girl he killed while spraying at his "rival"?

Good point. To them, shooting a kid to death is bad, raping a kid is worse. Go figure...

310 posted on 08/23/2003 2:41:52 PM PDT by TheSpottedOwl (I need a new tag line)
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To: BlessedBeGod
And YOU do not know that he repented, now do you?

Of course, God makes all things possible, but this pedophile's REPEATED acts of rape, tell me he did not repent!
311 posted on 08/23/2003 2:42:10 PM PDT by onyx (Name an honest democrat? I can't either!)
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To: openotherend
BS, San Francisco is full of people who have done worse.
312 posted on 08/23/2003 2:42:12 PM PDT by RobbyS
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To: Russell Scott
Mr. Scott,

You dear Sir are 1000% Correct!

And I like your Tag Line too!

GOD BLESS YOU.

313 posted on 08/23/2003 2:42:23 PM PDT by Simcha7 (The Plumb - Line has been Drawn, T'shuvah/Return for The Kingdom of HaShem is at hand!)
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To: Salvation; TheSpottedOwl
Judge not, less you be judged.

who's judging? Many people here are expressing approval of Geoghan's demise...

...and I am one of them. THREE CHEERS THAT HE IS DEAD! Judge and expect to be judged.

314 posted on 08/23/2003 2:43:53 PM PDT by PGalt
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To: BlessedBeGod
To date, God has not seen fit to waste a single miracle on the cure of any pedophile!

And you know that how? Care to supply us with your source for that information?

Nice try, obtuse one. YOU CITE one cured pedophile!

315 posted on 08/23/2003 2:44:49 PM PDT by onyx (Name an honest democrat? I can't either!)
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To: af_vet_1981
A law that says that sodomy is no crime is unlikely to punish people for sodomy, even against children. Remember the case of the two kids who kiled their father at the urging of their father's homosexual lover, who had also been bonging the kids. The guy got off and almost no concern that he had be spdomizing the kids. Sodomy is only evil when it is done by priests: that's the new law.
316 posted on 08/23/2003 2:46:58 PM PDT by RobbyS
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To: missyme
Thank you for your opinion.

If you are Catholic, you are wrong.

If you are not Catholic, you may begin lessons on the celibacy question here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/966535/posts, at post #38 is the definitive essay on the topic.
317 posted on 08/23/2003 2:46:59 PM PDT by ninenot (Democrats make mistakes. RINOs don't correct them.--Chesterton (adapted by Ninenot))
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To: jakkknife
at least this monster is now in the 10th ring of hell

Would you please be so kind as to tell me where you got your information?

318 posted on 08/23/2003 2:47:12 PM PDT by Renatus
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To: Jorge
So the absolute worse criminals get released

Not necessarily the worst--but certainly the quickest.

319 posted on 08/23/2003 2:48:39 PM PDT by ninenot (Democrats make mistakes. RINOs don't correct them.--Chesterton (adapted by Ninenot))
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To: cake_crumb
HOW IS A REVENGE OR TRANSFERRENCE KILLING OF A MONSTER WHO DELIGHTED IN RAPING LITTLE BOYS CATHOLIC BASHING??

It's not. I think you missed the part about how a Freeper took the opportunity to claim that Geoghan was proof that the Catholic Church was a tool of Satan.

320 posted on 08/23/2003 2:48:47 PM PDT by kezekiel
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