Thomas, who is now retired, declined to be interviewed. Geoghan was buried in Holyhood Cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts, on August 28, 2003. Retired 2000. Geoghan, she recalled bitterly, was eager to help. ". John Paul Lyttle has had a very all over the place history. When Geoghan dropped a shaken McSorley off at his mother's house, he suggested they keep secret what had taken place. If you see this guy, run, he told them. It led to the resignation of Boston's archbishop, Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, on December 13, 2002. After Geoghan's 1989 return to St. Julia's, it was another 38 months before Law took him out of the parish. Of the priests, few would speak publicly. The second, more serious set of charges are due to be tried in Suffolk Superior Court in late February. But then he patted his upper leg and slid his hand up toward his crotch.
It was written by Rezendes. ", Within the next week, two doctors cleared Geoghan for parish duty, according to an archdiocesan chronology that is in court files. For years, McSorley has battled alcoholism and depression. Dussourd discovered what was happening after the children finally told her sister, Margaret Gallant. var s_channel="News";
We couldnt tell you because Father said it was a confessional, she said one of her sons told her. "We knew something wasn't right," the teacher said.
Benzevich told his story to Mitchell Garabedian, who represents nearly all of the plaintiffs in the civil suits against Geoghan and church officials, according to an affidavit Garabedian filed. Mueller testified that she immediately took the boys to see Rev. James H. Lane, has told friends he was never warned that Geoghan had a history of sex abuse. A 1994 Archdiocesan memorandum, labeled personal and confidential, said Geoghan would stay in the Dussourd home even when he was on retreat because he missed the children so much.
He lived in Guernsey and Belfast. But court records reviewed by the Globe show that when Benzevich appeared in Garabedian's office for a pre-trial deposition in October 2000, he was represented by Wilson Rogers 3d - the son of Law's principal attorney. Paul E. Miceli, a parish priest at St. Mary's in Melrose who knew both Geoghan and her family.
Boston Globe / Spotlight / Abuse in the Catholic Church The shuttling of Geoghan from one parish to another created a devastating coincidence for one family. Members of the Boston Globes Spotlight speak out about breaking the church abuse scandal story. From the Jamaica Plain case alone, the archdiocese's top officials were aware of Geoghan's attraction to young boys, and how he picked his victims: The affable Geoghan usually befriended Catholic mothers struggling to raise large families, often alone.
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. Until recent years, the church also had little to fear from the courts.
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Almost always, his victims were grammar school boys. . On Dec. 7, Bishop John M. D'Arcy wrote to Law, challenging the wisdom of the assignment in light of Geoghan's "history of homosexual involvement with young boys. var s_pageName="News | Special reports | Priest sex abuse | Globe story archives (all)";
In 1981, after a years sick leave, Geoghan was dispatched to St. Brendans in Dorchester, with little chance he would be placed under scrutiny: His pastor for most of his 3 1/2 years there, the Rev. Three weeks after Geoghan arrived in Weston, Bishop DArcy protested the assignment to Law, citing Geoghans problems and adding: I understand his recent abrupt departure from St. Brendans, Dorchester may be related to this problem., A copy of the letter contains a redacted paragraph, an apparent reference to the Rev. During his assignment in Hingham, Geoghan found victims far afield, befriending Joanne Mueller, a single mother of four boys who lived in Melrose. DArcy urged Law to consider restricting Geoghan to weekend duty while receiving some kind of therapy. The Globe could find no evidence that Law accepted that advice. Even so, the archdiocese returned him to St. Julia's, where Geoghan continued to abuse children for another three years.
Just like in the movie, Carroll ran outside, turned the corner and found himself standing in front of Geoghans house. Since mid-December, the Globe has been requesting interviews with Law and other Church officials. }
A video showing several corrections officers trying to open Geoghan's cell door, which Druce had wedged shut while he attacked the former priest, was released on YouTube in June 2007,[15][16] along with videos showing resuscitation efforts on Geoghan by emergency personnel. MacLeish, who has had substantial dealings with the Boston Archdiocese, said he remains astonished at Rogerss assertion that Geoghans assignments were deemed safe by doctors. He was 68-years-old. But over time, some parishioners became suspicious. image14on = new Image();
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Since 1997, the archdiocese has settled about 50 lawsuits against Geoghan, for more than $10 million - but with no confidential documents ever made public. . Mueller recalled the boy saying. By Kevin. [9], After initially agreeing to a $30 million settlement with 86 of Geoghan's victims, the Boston archdiocese pulled out of it, finally settling with them for $10 million.[10]. One boy he allegedly molested is the son of a man who had been among the many sexually abused by Porter during the 1960s in the Fall River Diocese, according to Roderick MacLeish Jr., the attorney who represented the man and 100 other Porter victims. Theres a scene in the movie Spotlight when Boston Globe reporter Matt Carroll, played by actor Brian dArcy James, realizes that a rehab facility for priests accused of sexual abuse is located around the corner from his own house.
From April 312, 1989, he was treated at the Saint Luke Institute in Silver Spring, Maryland, where he was diagnosed with homosexual pedophilia. Eight months later, a 22-year-old man filed a suit claiming that Geoghan had abused him beginning in 1981, when he was seven. CNN's Michael Okwu reports. image1off.src = "http://cache.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/images/universal/newnav/home_off.gif";
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I felt a little funny about it, McSorley recalled in an interview.
Boston Globe / Spotlight / Abuse in the Catholic Church / The Geoghan case Riding home after getting ice cream, McSorley says, Geoghan consoled him. One example: When Law was named a defendant in 25 of the lawsuits, Rogers asked a judge to impound any reference to the cardinal, arguing that his reputation might be harmed. The legal response by the cardinal, narrowly drawn in response to the lawsuit against him, omits any reference to Geoghans molestation of children at St. Brendans in Dorchester. I froze up, McSorley said. Before his deposition, Benzevich said, Wilson Rogers 3d approached him, told him the church was trying to protect him from being named as a defendant, and offered to represent him. "The perfect substitute father," Geoghan said of his uncle, who would dress his young nephew in the vestments of a priest for festive neighborhood parades at the family's summer home in Scituate . But one of Law's bishops thought that the 1984 assignment of Geoghan to St. Julia's was so risky, he wrote the cardinal a letter in protest. Several weeks later, Dussourd said, a contrite Thomas came to her apartment and told her that Geoghan had admitted to abusing the boys, but had excused his behavior by telling the pastor, It was only two families.. Horrified, Dussourd complained to the Rev. ". If Mueller had unwittingly facilitated Geoghans access to the children in her home in Melrose, the same role was played by Maryetta Dussourd at the priests next stop: St. Andrews, in the Forest Hills section of Jamaica Plain, where he served from 1974 to 1980. Despite his record, Geoghan was assigned to St. Julias. 12/14/84 Dr. [John H.] Brennan: "no psychiatric contraindications or restrictions to his work as a parish priest." . In 1980, for instance, he was ordered out of St. Andrews in Jamaica Plain after casually admitting he had molested the seven boys. As a result, Geoghan was sent to the Seton Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, for treatment for his pedophilia. Abusive priests - Geoghan among them - often instructed traumatized youngsters to say nothing about what had been done to them. Druce is hospitalized again