Killer of [Pedophile] Ex-Priest Was Hater of Gays (Three Bag Hurl Alert..)

New Jersey Star Ledger ^ | August 26, 2003 | Adam Gorlick

[prarie earth]

The inmate accused of strangling John Geoghan in his prison cell hated homosexuals and began plotting the attack on the child molesting former priest weeks ago, a prosecutor said yesterday.

'He looked on Father Geoghan as a prize,' District Attorney John Conte said. No question he had been planning it for well over a month.

Joe L. Druce, who is serving a life term for killing a gay man 15 years ago, cut apart a book to make a perfect tool for jamming the door of Geoghan's cell and spent time stretching the socks used in the strangling, Conte said.

'Druce had a longstanding phobia, it appears, toward homosexuals of any kind..He is filled with long standing hate,' Conte said as he provided new details into the death of the central figure in the Roman Catholic Church sex scandal.

Conte did not address why two inmates with such criminal histories were living in the same cell block at the maximum security Souza Correctional Facility in Shirley.

[prarie earth]

Taking out the garbage..

[EggsAckley]

There was no reason to excerpt this article. The link leads to garbage.

STOP UNNECESSARY EXCERPTING

[prarie earth]

Some of the detail is awfully graphic..

[EggsAckley]

Just because it's graphic doesn't mean we should be led to a garbage link. Are you a censor? If it's graphic, then put a graphic alert in the title.

I know that Lucianne requires EVERY article to be excerpted, but FR DOESN'T.

[Terriergal]

Funny how they can connect pedophilia to homosexuality when THEY want to make a point, but let anyone else try it...

[Terriergal]

And why is this a surprise? How many people really don't know that child molesters typically don't do well in jails?

Any comment on the idea that maybe the killer had been abused as a child in this way, and so we ought to make excuses for him? No of course not.

[proud2serve]

I got the article off the website. The junk you saw was a typical consensus poll by the newsagency to see what type of readers they have. These are widely used on the internet for these agencies to gauge who thier audience is, to better serve them.
So, it wasn't garbage, but a legitimate article.

[prarie earth]

That would require actual reporting on the part of the journalist who wrote the story..

[wideawake]

The coverage of the unlamented death of John Geoghan proves several points that FR Catholic bashers like to ignore:

(1) The media pounced so ferociously on this story not because of concern for the victims of child abuse or because of righteous indignation against the perpetrators: they trumpeted the story as loudly as they could for more than a year because it made the Catholic Church look bad.

(2) The reason why they wanted to publicly degrade the Catholic Church is because the Catholic Church's teachings on abortion, contraception, fornication, sodomy and divorce are directly opposed to everything the media stand for.

Now the media is showing its true colors: mourning a child molester and attacking his killer as a "homophobe."

I hope all the stupid kneejerk FReepers who allied with the liberal media against the hated Catholic Church realize that they've been played for suckers.

[proud2serve]

TSK, TSK, don't attack the messenger. It seems to me that you are trying to censor here. The excerpt was not graphic, the story was. So, there's no reason to get upset here. That's why there was a link to the actual article, so as not to offend.

[EggsAckley]

Still, WHY put the readers through the survey when the text of the article could just have been posted in the first place??

When I see crap like that at the end of a link, I just stop and return to FR. After just reaming SEVEN viruses out of my computer, I don't appreciate being sent to unknown/unsecure websites. Do us all a favor:


. . . STOP UNNECESSARY EXCERPTING . . . .

[EggsAckley]

ME....trying to censor? HUH?? I would just like to read the article WITHOUT going through some commercial bullcrap on an unknown website. How hard is THAT? Prarie earth was the censor here, deciding that it was TOO graphic to post.

Pay attention, please.

[DuncanWaring]

As another wise person suggested here recently, a more appropriate headline would be "Child Molester Killed By Molested Child".

[prarie earth]

Im shocked this headline didn't come from the old Grey Trollop Herself.

[prarie earth]

Most likely that is correct..

[EggsAckley]

For your entertainment.

~</;o)

[proud2serve]

If you look at the media, it is thier job to report, how it comes about is another story. What a news story is supposed to do is report the facts as they are and let the reader make thier own assumptions. Now we all know that we are human, and personal emotions can find thier way into what is written, but to categorize every journalist, etc.. into one category isn't nice.
I have been offended at the handling of some stories, especially of the military in the '90s, but after I stepped back and actually looked at what was being reported, I realized that certain facts were left out because they were only known to the military at the time and were deterimental to operations. Now, that's going deep with that one, but it's just one of many examples.
Now, as for the story, it was a big event, one that is digging at the very core of Catholicism. Now, who did that? The reporters? The victims? No, the very men that were supposed to be our spiritual guides. Who really is to blame on this one?
The media is not "mourning" a child molestor! I saw no sympathy for what happened to him, only a story about his death in JAIL. His killer is not being hailed as a "hero". I see it as more of a realization that within the corrections system, thier is a sort of vigilante law going on among prisoners that can't be stopped.
I say that it is sad that the priest corrupted the Catholic Church with his atrocities and met an untimely death at the hands of another corrupt individual. His actions put him where he was, Justice was served in the courthouse, not in the jail, and Geoghan's killer will be judged by a higher power than we.

[Pompah]

" He looked on Father Geoghan as a prize." Yeah, about the same way the Good Father looked at the Alter-Boys. What goes around,comes around.

[proud2serve]

I understand your frustration, with the internet the way it is, there's no telling what will pop up. If you look at it this way, when you take that survey once, it doesn't come up again, after awhile you forget that you took it, put the link in for others without a thought about them having it pop up, innocent mistake.
It isn't hard to think that it is a bunch of bull, but getting these news agencies to conform is harder. I tried to get an article from CNN and couldn't get it without subscribing to thier service. You are right it's commercialism.

[prarie earth]

Payback is a witch isnt it?

Apparently the plan was after chocking the pedophile to death with gym socks the guy was going to emasculate the Father with a shaving razor.