The prison murder of John Geoghan marked a grisly end to a sordid tale. Yet in his death, Catholics finally began to speak the language they should have been speaking about the scandal of priestly ...

(New York-WABC, August 25, 2003) — A formal autopsy will be conducted today on the body of pedophile priest John Geoghan. Meantime, there’s new information about how one of the most infamous figures ...

BOSTON -- Long before the public became aware of former priest John Geoghan, clergy sex abuse had cast a shadow over the Roman Catholic Church with claims of molestation and rape, multimillion-dollar ...

As a child molester, and a central figure in the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal, the defrocked priest John Geoghan was a predictable target for violence when he was incarcerated. He was being ...

Defrocked Catholic priest John Geoghan listens to defense cross examination of a witness at Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge, Mass., in this Jan. 16, 2002 file photo. Geoghan, who became a ...

BOSTON (AP) — A Boston woman who was one of the first people to raise the alarm about a sexually abusive Roman Catholic priest has died. Maryetta Dussourd was 74. She died of cancer on May 24, ...

A jury began deliberating Tuesday in the murder case against an inmate who claimed he was insane when he strangled child-molesting priest John Geoghan in the clergyman’s prison cell. The jury got the ...

BOSTON — John Geoghan, the defrocked priest and convicted pedophile who cost the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston $10 million to settle sexual abuse claims two weeks ago, was named Thursday in 17 ...

The first of two criminal trials of a former priest accused of molesting more than 130 people and engaging in improper sexual conduct with a child began today at the Middlesex Superior Court in ...

NEW YORK — In a case that shed harsh light on how the Roman Catholic Church deals with pedophilia in the clergy, a Cambridge, Mass., jury on Friday convicted a defrocked priest of fondling a boy 10 ...

Former Catholic priest John Geoghan listens during a pre-trial motion hearing in Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge, Mass., Monday, Nov 5, 2001. Geoghan was facing two counts of rape of a child ...

John Geoghan was beaten and strangled to death at Massachusetts' maximum-security Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in 2003 by a fellow inmate. Geoghan, who had accused of molesting as many as 150 ...