[prarie earth]

Taking out the garbage..

[EggsAckley]

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

STOP UNNECESSARY EXCERPTING

[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.

[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.

[DuncanWaring]

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

[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.

[sauropod]

Don'tcha just love it when DAs act as psychologists?

[Petronski]

WORCESTER, Mass. -- 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 upon Father Geoghan as a prize," District Attorney John J. Conte said. "No question he had been planning it for well over a month."

Joseph 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 "has a long-standing 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-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley. Conte said part of the investigation would try to determine how many cells should be opened at any one time on the protective custody block.

Yesterday, Gov. Mitt Romney appointed a panel to conduct an independent investigation. Surveillance cameras filming the protective custody unit while the attack took place also are being reviewed.

Druce and Geoghan had just finished lunch in their cells and were let out to return their trays when Druce followed Geoghan into his cell about 11:52 a.m. Saturday, before the doors were locked again.

In the upper track of the cell door, Druce jammed a book he had doctored to fit the slot, then put nail clippers and a tooth brush in the door's lower track to prevent guards from opening the door. He had precut the book to fit into the track, Conte said.

He tied Geoghan's hands behind his back with a T-shirt, then used the stretched-out socks, a pillow case and one of Geoghan's shoes to strangle him, Conte said. Druce did not use a razor he had with him, but may have intended to castrate the former priest, Conte said.

Once he was alerted to the attack by an inmate, the guard on duty tried to get inside, but found the door was jammed. He called for help. By the time a nurse arrived to treat Geoghan, seven or eight minutes had passed, Conte said.

Geoghan, 68, was taken to Leominster Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:17 p.m. An autopsy yesterday showed that Geoghan died from strangulation and blunt chest trauma. He also had broken ribs and a punctured lung, Conte said.

Conte has said Druce will be charged with murder once a grand jury is convened in September. Druce, who remains in isolation in the prison, has been cooperative with investigators, Conte said.

Geoghan allegedly molested nearly 150 boys over three decades and became a symbol of the clergy sex abuse scandal that shook the foundations of the Catholic church. He was serving a nine- to 10-year sentence for assault and battery on a 10-year-old boy. He had been in protective custody since being transferred to Souza-Baranowski in April, officials said.

Geoghan eventually was granted early retirement in 1996 and praised for an "effective life of ministry, sadly impaired by illness" by Cardinal Bernard Law, who ultimately resigned in December 2002 for his role in the scandal.

[Redleg Duke]

I hope he gets his sentence reduced for this. He did the world a favor and gave a lot of innocent victims a sense of closure.

[Tiger_eye]

I hope and pray that Joseph Druce gets his filthy brains bashed in by the mafia or something.

[Dionysius]

All I got out of the article and, indeed, the entire incident is that states without the death penalty cannot protect their inmates and guards because lifers have nothing to lose!

[MEGoody]

Not excusing the young man's actions, but I understand he had been molested repeatedly by a homosexual when a child. (Not sure of his age at the time.) Obviously, he hadn't gotten over it.

[Arthur McGowan]

I have reported you for abuse, because your comment was PRO-MURDER. No one has the right to commit murder--not the man in the street, not an abortionist, and not a criminal in jail with other criminals.

[Mr. Mojo]

'Druce had a longstanding phobia, it appears, toward homosexuals

Homophobic? He feared fruits? Not likely. More likely he just found them disgusting. And more likely than that he just hated child molestors.