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PEDOPHILE PRIEST GEOGHAN MURDERED IN PRISON
drudge | 8-23-03 | drudge

Posted on 08/23/2003 12:58:03 PM PDT by TheRedSoxWinThePennant

Edited on 08/23/2003 1:11:48 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: boston; childrapist; geoghan; getlawnext; homosexual; homosexualagenda; prisoners; vigilanteism
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To: dagoofyfoot
Only when the good people do nothing, can evil flourish!

I'm doing something.

Of course, that something is watching porn and drinking beer.

So maybe it won't help.

641 posted on 08/24/2003 10:30:56 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I am the extended middle finger in the fist of life.)
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To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant

traditionally, in US Prisons, the other prisoners beat up child-molesters/rapists

Natural justice

"Justice must be done, and seen to be done"
642 posted on 08/24/2003 10:31:42 AM PDT by The Pheonix
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To: FITZ
Liberalism is attacking the foundations of both my country and my church ---- but I have left neither.

You and I are virtually of one mind on you posted statements. I defend my county and church from enemies both foreign and domestic. When concentrating on one, we must not lose sight of the other.

643 posted on 08/24/2003 10:35:40 AM PDT by Barnacle (A Human Shield against the onslaught of Leftist tripe.)
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To: Barnacle
You and I are virtually of one mind

Siamese brains?

644 posted on 08/24/2003 10:37:04 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I am the extended middle finger in the fist of life.)
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To: dagoofyfoot
Yeah, and you'll end up where you belong...pulling your head out of some liberal wacko's,(like Justice Rose Bird's) A$$!

That might be funny if it made some sense.

then you can explain to your 10 your son , who had just been repeatedly sodomized by Father O'Hara durring alter boy practice, that he's not really a bad man, just a little sick who needs to get well...

I'm not a Catholic, so that would be unlikely to happen.

People have cracked jokes for many many years about pedophile priests, but the Catholic community was long in denial. If I were a Catholic, I would be extremely angry at the Church about abuse that likely has gone on for centuries, not just years, the church which enabled the abuse to perpetuate and in which priests were protected at the highest levels of Church authority.

You dolt, of course I think child abuse is disgusting. Don't put words into my mouth. I hope for others sake that you aren't going around killing everyone you personally think needs some killing. If so, then jail is the right place for you. As an advocate of murder, however, perhaps you just belong in a mental asylum.
645 posted on 08/24/2003 10:39:11 AM PDT by adam_az (.)
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To: missyme
First let me say we agree on much. However,I am particularly concerned that the media,the education system and others,among them some gay bishops and priests want to "normalize" homosexuality.

To do that they need to destroy the moral authority of the Catholic Church. How better to do that then to have a sex scandal,preferably one that involves children,this to assure the "masses" get worked up. BTW,I know I am overgeneralizing here but it is the primary causes and effects that I am trying to identify and address. Back to point,they knew,what many of us were unaware of,that pedophilia is a sickness and probably in most cases incurable.They also knew that most pedophiles are heterosexual or bisexual and the bi's,because so many were married,would look to the average observer as a heterosexual..

So the plan was,follow the chronology,was ensure a boatload of abusers,and when the numbers reach "critical mass" expose the numbers and hide the ages.Because they also knew that 90% of the abuses were "chickenhawks" lookng to kill two birds with one stone. Chickenhawks satisfy their desire for youth and beauty and can recruit young men into the homosexual community with the very same act. They counted on the label of pedophile and the average Americans lack of knowledge to create an outburst that would destroy the priesthood and the Church's moral authority.

That is why it is so emportant to separate the two types of crimes that are sailing under the label of pedophilia and shout out that it is the homosexuals who are the problem that must be dealt with first. I hope you will consider what I have said and not allow "celibacy" to become the issue. If they can fool people into thinking married priests are the answer,they buy more time. Most people don't need more time,they need to get active and denounce those who say that it is a fine alternatuve life style. It is not,it is a death style.

646 posted on 08/24/2003 10:40:55 AM PDT by saradippity
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To: maryz
He apparently had no interest in adults or teenagers.

Well, I would bet that a good percentage of those in prison never considered participating in homosexual practices, either, prior to incarceration.

647 posted on 08/24/2003 10:41:21 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Lazamataz
Always a pleasure to hear from you Laz.

?;^)
648 posted on 08/24/2003 10:42:47 AM PDT by Barnacle (A Human Shield against the onslaught of Leftist tripe.)
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To: Gabz
>The Catholic church is a magnet for anything and everything the least bit unsavory. Always has been. Always will be.

And you have facts to back up this claim???????


How about covering up child abuse, probably for centuries?
649 posted on 08/24/2003 10:43:02 AM PDT by adam_az (.)
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To: Gabz
Oh, and if you don't beleive me, read about the history of the "castrati."

They weren't just "used" for singing.
650 posted on 08/24/2003 10:47:45 AM PDT by adam_az (.)
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To: adam_az
As an advocate of murder, however, you just belong in a mental asylum


Murder? How about Justice? More than half the people in this country support the death penalty. I guess according to your philosophy they all belong in mental asylums...


You probably don't have any children, because you can't quite find some with to intellectually produce with...but if you did, and you found out your child was repeatedly molested by a neighbor, coach, teacher, or who ever. How would you feel Mr. Intellectual? What would you do? I'm really curious to how someone as yourself with all your knowledge would answer this question.


No, I don't believe you're Catholic...your just another stinkin' liberal!
651 posted on 08/24/2003 10:52:25 AM PDT by dagoofyfoot
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To: dagoofyfoot
I don't deny the problem - never have.

I just happen to disagree it exists at any differnet level than in any other "industry"....it just so happens to be the Catholic church and therefore considered fair game for more Cathoclic bashing.
652 posted on 08/24/2003 10:54:42 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: saradippity
Great comments on your posting and I do agree with quite a bit of what you said. I feel that Under the Umbrella of Sexual peversion is: Homosexuals, pedophiles, peeping toms, bisexuality and beastiality.

Heterosexuals that are married and involve themselves in adulterous affairs are not necesarilly perverts as they have broken there vows to there spouse and to G-D.
I am also saying that Heterosexuals that are single and practice sexual relations with multiple partners, risk disease, unwanted pregnancys and broken hearts where there is no commitment with a person, these practices although are not peversions.

I guess what I am saying is that are best bet as leaders in the church would be Married Heterosexuals.

653 posted on 08/24/2003 10:56:21 AM PDT by missyme
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To: Lazamataz
The Catholic church is a magnet for anything and everything the least bit unsavory. Always has been. Always will be.

I'm not watching porn, but I am drinking beer, is that considered doing something????

654 posted on 08/24/2003 10:56:23 AM PDT by Gabz (anti-smokers - personification of everything wrong in this country.)
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To: dagoofyfoot
I just read this post and don't understand why there's a religious debate over a man who used religion as a shield instead of a calling. The best thing I can do is keep him separate from the church for he WAS NOT a man of God.

You have people praying for his soul when he gave it satan long ago. Salvation (if there's any to be had) is between he and whomever he prays to. You can't serve two masters and it's clear who he chose to serve.

I'm sure Uday will let him sleep on the futon until his room is ready.
655 posted on 08/24/2003 10:58:22 AM PDT by Kitten1
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To: Lazamataz
Of course, that something is watching porn and drinking beer.


You forgot to also mention whippping your weasel and littering the floor with empty jars of Vaseline...
656 posted on 08/24/2003 10:58:32 AM PDT by dagoofyfoot
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To: dagoofyfoot
You forgot to also mention whippping your weasel and littering the floor with empty jars of Vaseline...

You've been peeking!!!

Cheeky monkey.

657 posted on 08/24/2003 11:02:05 AM PDT by Lazamataz (I am the extended middle finger in the fist of life.)
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To: FITZ; af_vet_1981
I heard on the Radio this morning that the "hero" prisoner who murdered the pedofile ex-priest is a white neo-nazi, in jail for life for murder among other things.

Perhaps had not the pedofile been handy, your neo-nazi "hero" might have murdered the first jew or black to come along.

658 posted on 08/24/2003 11:02:23 AM PDT by Age of Reason
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To: FITZ
The other thing --- priests and bishops and Popes aren't above the need for salvation, they are just as susceptible to evil, they need Jesus and redemption.

Indeed. I contend that their temptations are even greater than layfolk's. The dark one knows that the easiest way to gain souls for himself is to corrupt the shepards. I pray for my priest's strength as well as my own. Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil.

659 posted on 08/24/2003 11:05:00 AM PDT by Kudsman
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To: Gabz
I just happen to disagree it exist at any different level than in any other "industry"..


"Industry?" It's a freakin' church for cryin' out loud! The b@st@rds are supposed to stand for something Godly! The youth are supposed to be able to trust them!


If you can't trust a man who supposedly committed his life to God, than who can you trust?


Death was too good for this scumbag!


Jesus said, "You are either with me, or against me." You can't be "with" Jesus and promoting the cover up of pedophiles at the same time...and it's still going on!
660 posted on 08/24/2003 11:07:22 AM PDT by dagoofyfoot
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