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PERV REV.'S STRANGLER A HERO IN HIS OWN SICK & EVIL MIND
New York Post ^ | 8/31/03 | AL GUART

Posted on 08/31/2003 4:44:50 AM PDT by kattracks

Edited on 05/26/2004 5:16:22 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

August 31, 2003 -- The madman who strangled pedophile priest John Geoghan last week has continued his manic rage by abusing prison staff and demanding he be treated as a hero, The Post has learned.

An additional disciplinary report has been filed against crazed Joseph Druce after an incident with a prison nurse. The 37-year-old lifer launched into a tirade of foul language and insisted he be given special attention because "I just saved your kids from being raped," prison sources said.


(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: abnormalpsychology; geoghan; jailhousejustice; josephdruce

1 posted on 08/31/2003 4:44:51 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
You run into the most interesting people in prison.
2 posted on 08/31/2003 4:47:28 AM PDT by Semper Paratus
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To: FoxFang
The gay child rapist was due to be released from prison after serving only a 6 year sentence (and that's if he actually served his whole sentence), far too short of a sentence in my opinion.

While this article goes into detail about one of the criminals, showing him for the deranged person he was, there has never been a detailed account of the perv's crimeS.

According to reports, he was convicted of one rape, but had apparently been involved in the abuse of 130 kids.

No therapy. No reports suggesting he was not "cured. Nothing that would keep him from his foul deeds after his release.

5 posted on 08/31/2003 4:59:45 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
...and "talks a great deal about ghosts and monsters with tremendous excitement."

Sounds like a couple of 'em got to him too!

6 posted on 08/31/2003 5:02:22 AM PDT by sirchtruth
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To: Aunt Enna
It may not be that people agree with him rather than seeing that someone who has committed vile crimes against defensless children meeting his end while defenseless.

No doubt about it, Drust was sick and evil, but then again so was the perv.

8 posted on 08/31/2003 5:09:59 AM PDT by kattracks
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To: kattracks
"His mother, Donna Smiledge - a depressed high-school dropout who described her pregnancy as "a disaster" - told doctors that her son's life began spiraling out of control at the age of 2..."

I don't excuse this guy from his own accountability, but clearly this woman created a monster.

9 posted on 08/31/2003 5:12:31 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: kattracks
Even wild animals will only kill for food or self-defense. The likes of Druce and Geoghan are proof that monsters walk among us, and proof by extension that evil exists. Geoghan's death is the simple result of boarding monsters amongst themselves, where a demonic hierarchy of needs ensues.
10 posted on 08/31/2003 5:15:54 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: ExpatInLondon
All people are born bad....and in need of reformation. Apparently, neither the mom nor the son acknowledge their own soulish impoverishment.
12 posted on 08/31/2003 5:20:38 AM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: kattracks
"In his twisted mind, he thinks he's a hero," said a law-enforcement source familiar with the incident, which occurred last Monday at the maximum-security Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Mass.

With him being already a lifer, and Massachusetts having no death penalty (last execution was in 1947), he won't be punished. So why shouldn't he think this way?

While I don't advocate frquent application of the death penalty, the one circumstance in which it MUST be applied is where the murderer was already under life sentence. No civilized society just lets people get away with murder, as will happen in this case. If anything, the murderer is being rewarded since his trial will vary his monotonous days.

As for the murder being justified, it is fortunate that the man killed was a vile criminal and not, as may happen next time, the warden. However, murder still needs to be punished.

13 posted on 08/31/2003 5:25:51 AM PDT by Steve Eisenberg
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To: FoxFang
"I think that we should have the death penalty for people who rape small children".

If you believe Christ is The Carnal Manifestation of The Creator Himself, and it is a _SAVING THING_ to so believe, then the choice is clear:

Hang a millstone around each molester's neck and throw them to the dark and murky.

This is very intolerant and bloody, and no solution, they tell me.

Perhaps. But what a dis-incentive...
14 posted on 08/31/2003 6:40:31 AM PDT by Psalm118 (Psalm 119:89. For ever, O Lord, Thy Word is settled in Heaven.)
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To: kattracks
"In December 1989, a jury convicted Druce of murder, and a judge gave him life.

Since then, prison records show, he joined an neo-Nazi group, mailed phony mail bombs to two public officials and later sent a letter containing excrement to one of the officials.

In October 2001, he was indicted for mailing phony anthrax letters containing a white powder to 39 people in Walpole, Mass."

Prison seems to be no impediment to the commission of many crimes by this man, esp. mail-fraud. What is going on in this prison that a violent, half-crazed lifer is able to carry on in this manner, up to an including killing another inmate. It seems quite likely that had he not killed Geoghan he would have killed someone else sooner or later, and maybe not an inmate either, maybe a guard or some other worker in the prison.

I don't get this at all, they seem to have minimal control of this man, and that's really not my concept of prison.

15 posted on 08/31/2003 7:16:03 AM PDT by jocon307
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To: kattracks
Timing is everything. Now if he'd killed the priest before all those kids were victimized......
16 posted on 08/31/2003 8:38:44 AM PDT by witnesstothefall
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To: witnesstothefall
An opinion from a very dark place:

http://tinyurl.com/ls4m
17 posted on 08/31/2003 10:02:42 AM PDT by Psalm118 (Psalm 119:89. For ever, O Lord, Thy Word is settled in Heaven.)
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To: kattracks
My understanding, admittedly from a memory of high school psych, was that pedophiles have well over a 90% recidivism rate.
18 posted on 09/01/2003 9:04:18 PM PDT by swilhelm73
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To: witnesstothefall
Didn't some moron put the two together in a single cell. Everyone knew what Duce wanted to do with pedophiles. He planned it for a month, and I guess a few people knew.

Now if Duce was put in a cell with the Bishop that allowed pedophile priest John Geoghan to continue reoffending...

DK
19 posted on 09/01/2003 9:18:26 PM PDT by Dark Knight
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