PEDOPHILE PRIEST GEOGHAN MURDERED IN PRISON

drudge | 8-23-03 | drudge

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

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.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

boo hoo

[coydog]

That makes two of us.

[nwrep]

May he rot in hell and be sodomized for eternity.

[AntiGuv]

Awww - how ever so tragic.. [/s]

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

I am sure the flags are at half staff over at nambla

[af_vet_1981]

He should have been executed by the State and not by his fellow convicts.

[TheAngryClam]

I'm crying on the inside.

Honestly, every time I read about someone like this guy or Jeffery Dahlmer getting murdered in prison, I think I have a great idea.

Let's reduce the sentences of any inmate who kills another inmate by four months for every inmate they take out.

Goodbye prison population problem.

[PianoMan]

ROFL

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

thats not a half bad idea

[cynicom]

Equal justice under the law means, justice will be meted out even though the law has failed to do its duty.

[FITZ]

That's a good one --- but they really probably are. Was this that sick jerk who tried hiding in Mexico?

[adam_az]

I agree.

This is NOT justice.

Conservatives believe in rule of law, not vigilanteism. Those of you cheering make me sick, you give conservatives a bad name!

He was a scumbag, but he didn't get a death sentence.

I hope the perpetrator is caught and prosecuted. Who will they determine they have the "right" to kill next?

[B-Chan]

What can one say, really?

May God have mercy on his soul, on the souls of his victims, on his murderer and on all of us.

An ugly end to an ugly life.

[Temple Drake]

that's one down ...

[af_vet_1981]

Equal justice under the law means, justice will be meted out even though the law has failed to do its duty.

Well there is a cynical view. Nonetheless convicts dispensing justice is as much of a threat to society as justice going gayly blind.

[FITZ]

He should have been executed by the State and not by his fellow convicts.

Why? He's just as dead either way and this way is much cheaper. He probably asked for it by trying to do to a fellow prisoner what he had been doing to young boys.

[AngrySpud]

Hopefully he was shanked in the belly and took a long, long time to die. Enough time to curse his birth, and long enough of a death rattle to see the Gates of Hell swinging open for him.

[adam_az]

Honestly, every time I read about someone like this guy or Jeffery Dahlmer getting murdered in prison, I think I have a great idea.

Let's reduce the sentences of any inmate who kills another inmate by four months for every inmate they take out.
So murderers will have their sentence reduced by killing non-violent offenders in jail for tax fraud or marijuana cultivation, and be back on the streets sooner based on their proficiency at murdering?

That isn't "tough on crime."

It's STUPID!

[Lockbar]

Looks like that dirty little "fag" met up with somebody bigger than him. So sad (evil grin).

[ppaul]

He was a scumbag, but he didn't get a death sentence.

That's what's wrong with our legal system.
Legislators with no principles or backbones.
Wimpy judges.