John Geoghan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Geoghan

catholic priest from Massachusetts

Date of Birth: 04-Jun-1935

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 23-Aug-2003

Profession: Catholic priest

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

John Joseph Geoghan (; June 4, 1935 – August 23, 2003) was an American Roman Catholic priest and serial child rapist while he was assigned to parishes in the Archdiocese of Boston in Massachusetts.
He was re-assigned to several parish posts involving interaction with children, even after receiving treatment for pedophilia. The investigation and prosecution of Geoghan was one of numerous cases of priests accused of sexual abuse in a scandal that rocked the archdiocese in the 1990s and 2000s.
It led to the resignation of Boston's archbishop, Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, on December 13, 2002.
Law lost the support of fellow clergy and the laity after it was shown that his response to allegations against dozens of priests consisted of assigning them to different parishes, thus allowing sexual abuse of additional children to take place.
Geoghan was finally convicted of sexual abuse, laicized, and sentenced in 2002 to nine to ten years in Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum-security prison.
Less than a year later, he was murdered there by Joseph Druce, an inmate serving a life sentence.
The Boston Globe's coverage of Geoghan's abuse opened the door for public knowledge of the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Boston and sexual abuse by priests in the United States in general.
This coverage is a key plot element of the movie Spotlight that was released in 2015.