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It was only after last summers revelations that the archdiocese dropped its long-standing opposition to legislation adding clergy to the list of mandated reporters. But the legislation died in committee. For all the years that Geoghan was molesting children, clergymen were exempt from laws requiring most other caregivers to report incidents of sex abuse to police for possible prosecution. But over time, some parishioners became suspicious. Geoghan consultant ties eyed, September 4
"I don't want him doing that to my wee-wee, touching my wee-wee . Now, as Geoghan faces the first of two criminal trials next week, details about his sexual compulsion are likely to be overshadowed by a question that many Catholics find even more troubling: Why did it take a succession of three cardinals and many bishops 34 years to place children out of Geoghans reach? "He said, `Yes, that's all true,' " the official recalled. Benzevich would later deny this allegation. [citation needed], John Michael D'Arcy, who had written an unheeded letter of warning to Cardinal Law about Geoghan's behavior, was transferred from Boston to Indiana on February 26, 1985, and ended his career as bishop of the Diocese of Fort WayneSouth Bend. The churchs financial liability in the pending suits could increase dramatically if there is evidence Geoghans superiors knew of his abuse. This coverage is a key plot element of Tom McCarthy's film Spotlight (2015). Geoghans free rein was made possible because the archdiocese said nothing to Lane, St. Brendans pastor, about Geoghans history, according to a teacher in the parish whom Lane has confided in. Died 2006. Riding home after getting ice cream, McSorley says, Geoghan consoled him. It led to the resignation of Boston's archbishop, Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, on December 13, 2002. Why is nothing being done?, RELATED: More coverage of the Spotlight report. Former Catholic priest John Geoghan is killed in a Massachusetts prison while serving time on child sex abuse charges. image9off.src = "http://cache.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/images/universal/nav_jan23/clergy_off.gif";
Then he put his hand on my genitals and started masturbating me. Then she met Geoghan, who oversaw altar boys and Boy Scouts at the parish. Morrissey said the church had no interest in knowing what the Globe's questions would be. Even so, the archdiocese returned him to St. Julia's, where Geoghan continued to abuse children for another three years. Miceli, until recently a member of Laws cabinet, contradicted Mueller in his own deposition. "[3] He graduated in 1962 and was ordained. Church records obtained by the Globe note that Geoghan was indeed medically cleared for the St. Julia's assignment - but not until he had been at the parish for a month. According to McSorley, Geoghan, who knew the family from St. Andrew's, learned of his father's suicide and dropped by to offer condolences to his mother, who is schizophrenic. For years, McSorley has battled alcoholism and depression. That complaint to church officials coincides with the time frame when Geoghan received in-patient treatment for sex abuse at the Seton Institute in Baltimore, according to Sipe, the psychotherapist who was on Setons staff at the time. I dont believe in ghosts, Loney said when asked about the houses previous inhabitant. But even that decision to recast Geoghan as a functionary at a home for retired priests did not prevent him from seeking out and molesting children, according to the multiple civil suits and criminal charges filed against the 66-year-old Geoghan.
