Posted on 08/24/2003 8:30:56 PM PDT by hole_n_one
washingtonpost.com
Geoghan's Death Is Described
Fellow Inmate Jammed Cell Door During Attack
By Jonathan Finer
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 25, 2003; Page A01
BOSTON, Aug. 24 -- John J. Geoghan, the former priest and convicted child molester killed in a Massachusetts prison Saturday, was followed into his cell just after lunch by a fellow inmate who bound and gagged him before strangling him with a bed sheet, according to a union representative for prison guards.
The attacker, whom authorities identified as Joseph L. Druce, jammed the electronically operated cell door to prevent guards from opening it. He tied Geoghan's hands behind his back with a sheet and gagged him. He then repeatedly jumped from the bed in the cell onto Geoghan's motionless body and beat the defrocked priest with his fists.
Only one correction officer was on duty in the protective custody unit at the time, according to an account of the attack provided by Robert Brouillette, an executive of the Massachusetts Correction Officers Federated Union, who interviewed correction officers for seven hours Saturday. State and county officials involved in the investigation would not comment on Brouillette's description.
Druce entered Geoghan's cell just before noon, Brouillette said, when the prisoners left their one-person concrete cells to return their lunch trays. The solid cell door has a chest-high window that guards can look through as they pass by. When the officer on duty heard noises coming from Geoghan's cell but could not open the cell door from the control panel at his station, other officers were summoned by walkie-talkie. It took several of them to pry open the door.
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Good. I'm glad.
If you like vigilante justice, somebody might bash your head in for looking at them funny.
Now if only they can kill the woman who nearly burned her infant daughter to death in the broiler and got 25 years, and also the Miwaukee demon bitch who stabbed her newborn to death and then got a NINE MONTH SENTENCE from the evil left-wing judge.
Too bad he didn't, like from Schillinger & Co. over a pool table.
Whoever says the DEATH PENALTY doesn't deter killers needs to take a look at this POTENTIAL SERIAL killer and JUSTIFY his continued government care.
We all need help from Gen Pop, to take care of people who should have gotten the death penalty, but didn't.
Your zeal for Hollywood-style butcherings was the dead giveaway.
Were you raped as a child? By a priest?
Sounds like part of a well-orchestrated "hit" to me.
Suspects?? More than just a few -- The investigation can begin with the victims, their families, and friends of over 30 years for starters.
And another twist -- With the death of the creepy Geoghan goes decades of secrets, names, and pssible "accomplices" during that time. One more reason for the hit.
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