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Cath. 1a1. Criminal pedophile priest John Geoghan (Massachusets - "USA")
Catholic Church=ORGANIZED CRIME
-- The Church with sex prohibitions, celibacy and Satanist Vatican Bank is a criminal organization, a danger to the world - FORBID IT!
-- Victims are children (above all altar boys), young people (in municipalities), nuns + monks (in monasteries, seminars), and seminarians.
-- Crime scenes are above all the confessional, the "invitation" to the house of the bishop / priest, cath. children's homes, catholic religious schools, monasteries, cath. seminar houses, satanic rituals in the basement of cathedrals + castles etc.
Perpetrator and child abuse priest Geoghan, portrait of the 1970s [9], portrait of 1999 appr. [1] - in court in 1999 he claims he is "not guilty" [14] - The criminal confidant and accomplice Archbishop Cardinal Law 2001 [5]
Abused victims by Geoghan, for example: Paul Mendez [16], Anthony Muzzi [17], Joe Duldong [21], Ralph Delvecchio [26], John Sacco [42], Phil Saviano [6] etc.
Child abuse priest Geoghan on Wikipedia in German - Wikipedia ENGL
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-- documents from the newspaper Boston Globe about Geoghan case ("Geoghan Papers"): Link
Signature of cr.ped. John Geoghan [72] - Boston in the late afternoon with the bay and bridges [80]
Self-help groups for victims of abuse by the criminal Catholic Church
-- Link Up: Self-Help Group for Victims of Mental Abuse, Chicago, Director Tom Economus (article: March 23, 2001)
-- David Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (article: Feb. 24, 2004)
-- John Harris, co-leader of the Norwood chapter of the Survivors Network (article: Feb. 24, 2004)
-- Phil Saviano with Survivors Network in Jamaica Plain (article: March 23, 2001), Phil Saviano, founder of the New England Survivors Network (article: Feb.24, 2004)
Deoghan's victim and victim lawyer Phil Saviano, he built a network of contacts for survivors [6]
Elements of the Geoghan scandal
-- Report by Geoghan victim Phil Saviano: Phil Saviano does not accept hush money but wants to bring this important issue to the public and writes a 4-page letter (3'35 '') to the Boston Globe, but the Boston Globe says it would be all "old coffee" (3'55 '') (see video from March 8, 2018)
-- Newspaper "Boston Globe" with the article dated Jan.6, 2002, which blew up Geoghan AND Cardinal Law:
The entrance to the daily newspaper "Boston Globe" [67] - Newspaper pile with newspapers of the "Boston Globe" [64] - Boston Globe with spotlight investigative journalists, logo [66]
- Newspaper "Pilot", a newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston (March 23, 2001) [50]
-- Report by Kaplan Doyle et al. to all bishops of the "USA": "Meeting the Problem of Sexual Dysfunction in a Responsible Way" - 1986 - 126 pages (March 23, 2001) - and ALL were INFORMED
Crazy criminal Satanist Vatican Church and it's perverse sexuality - mentioned books in the articles
-- Book by Doyle / Sipe / Wall: "Sex, Priests, and Secret Codes: The Catholic Church's 2,000 Year Paper Trail of Sexual Abuse"
Hardcover - March 29, 2006 - by
-- Book by Eugene Kennedy, former priest and author: "The Unhealed Wound: The Church and Human Sexuality" - Amazon-Link
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-- Book by Jason Berry: "Lead Us Not Into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children" - Amazon-Link
Criminal pedophile priests in the Catholic Church (organized crime) - the list (is incomplete)
Archdiocese of Boston
-- Wikipedia about the child sex scandal in the diocese of Boston - Wikipedia link (englisch)
-- criminal-pedophile priest in the archdiocese of Boston: James Porter: convicted in 1993, detected in 1992 with a secret tape of his confession (Boston, Massachusets) [web08,web15] Wikipedia-Link (English) - Wikipedia-Link (German)
-- criminal-pedophile priest in the archdiocese of Boston: John Hanlon: convicted in 1994 - Wikipedia link (English)
-- criminal-pedophile priest in the archdiocese of Boston: Ronald Paquin (web21 - 8'40''): convicted in 2003 - Wikipedia link (English)
-- criminal-pedophile priest in the archdiocese of Boston: John Geoghan: convicted in 2002: (Boston 1962-1993, Massachusets, active as a criminal priest until 1998) [web15] - Wikipedia-Link (English) - Wikipedia-Link (German)
-- criminal-pedophile priest in the archdiocese of Boston: James Talbot: convicted in 2005 AND in 2018 - Wikipedia-Link (English)
-- criminal-pedophile priest in the archdiocese of Boston: Paul Desilets: convicted in 2005 - Wikipedia-Link (English)
-- criminal-pedophile priest in the archdiocese of Boston: Robert V. Gale: convicted in 2004 - Wikipedia-Link (English)
-- criminal-pedophile priest in the archdiocese of Boston: Paul Shanley (web21 - 5'32''): convicted in 2005 - Wikipedia-Link (English)
-- criminal-pedophile priest in the archdiocese of Boston: Robert A. Ward, also with drug abuse and child porn - Wikipedia-Link (English)
Archdiocese of Lafayette (Louisiana)
-- criminal-pedophile priest in the archdiocese of Lafayette: Gilbert Gauthe: detected in 1984 (in Lafayette, Louisiana) [web15]
Wikipedia link (English) - Wikipedia link (German)
Archdiocese of Los Angeles
-- criminal-pedophile priest in the archdiocese of Los Angeles: Ted Llanos: detected in 1996, with conspirator Cardinal Roger Mahony, but in 1997 Ted Llanos commits suicide (Los Angeles) [web15] - news from Spokesman (Englisch)
Priests as alcoholics
-- Priest Nicholas Driscoll with alcoholic problems, parish St. Julia's [web08] - news from Boston Globe (Englisch)
etc. etc. etc.
And this list goes on and on. The bishops, priests and cardinals in the church are totally deranged because of the celibacy (with prohibition of normal sex and ban of women), so, they become gay, they become criminal-pedophile, and the Satanist Vatican also runs a child porn ring to look after the children for his abuses and for his satanic rituals, the Satanist Vatican also conducts drug trafficking in collaboration with the Italian Ndrangheta mafia, and also money laundering in the Satanist Vatican Bank is proceded with drug money from Italian mafia etc. - everything in this gay Satanist Vatican is ORGANIZED CRIME and it's proved, see the videos about the Catholic Church - link.
Michael Palomino, March 16, 2019
The crime scenes of cr.ped. priest John Geoghan
Cr.ped. priest John Geoghan, portrait of the 1970s ca. [10] - child abuse priest Geoghan, portrait [1] - Map of Massachusets ("USA") [2] - The address of cr.ped. eternal criminal John Geoghan at 37 Pelton Street, [district] West Roxbury, [Boston], Massachusetts [70]
The house of Geoghan in Boston
West Roxbury is a residential area in South of Boston [web20]. After he was absent [since 2002?], his sister then lived there: Catherine Geoghan - 37 Pelton Street West Roxbury Massachusetts USA - tel. 6173233393 - 2132-2045 - see: https://www.locatefamily.com/Street-Lists/USA/MA/2132-/index.html [web19] -
The address of Catherine Geoghan since 2002 on 37 Pelton Street 37, West Roxbury, [Boston], Massachusets [71]
In 2014, this sister Catherine Geoghan died by a long illness and in 2015 the house was sold to a policeman [web19].
Chronology on the child abuse priest John Geoghan: the crime locations in Massachusetts ("USA")
The crime scenes of Geoghan [web01]:
-- 1962: priestly ordination in Brighton [web15]
-- Feb. 13, 1962: Parish "Blessed Sacrament" in Saugus (Essex County, Massachusetts) [web01]
-- Sep.22, 1966: Parish St. Bernard's in Concord (Middlesex County, Massachusetts) [web01]
-- April 20, 1967: Parish St Paul's in Hingham (Greater Boston, Massachusetts) [web01]
-- 1968: Seton Institute in Baltimore, treatment for pedophilia [web01]
-- 4.6.1974: Parish St Andrew's in "Jamaica Plain" (a neighborhood in Boston) [web01], Forest Hills [web15]
-- 1980: Hospitalization [web15]: psychoanalysis and psychotherapy with doctor Robert Mullins and physician John H. Brennan [web01]
-- Feb. 25, 1981: Parish St. Brendan's in Dorchester (Boston neighborhood) [web01]
-- Nov.13,1984-1993: Parish St. Julia's in Weston (Middlesex County, Massachusetts) [web01]
-- April 3-12, 1989: Treatment at the Saint Luke Institute in Silver Spring (Maryland), diagnosis of homosexual pedophilia [web01]
-- May 24 and Aug.10-Nov.4, 1989: Treatment at the Institute of Living, Hartford, Connecticut [web01]
-- from 1991: investigations by the Public Prosecutor of Cambridge (Massachusetts) [web01]
-- 1993: Retirement at the age of 58 [web01], resignation from active priesthood [web15]
-- 1995: Hospital stay [web15]
-- 1996: Therapy at the Southdown Institute in Ontario (Canada) [web01]
-- 1996: First of 134 lawsuits for sexual abuse [web15]
-- 1998: Diaper [Satanist] pope Johannes-Paul II. deprives Geoghan the priest title [web01]: Geoghan is expelled from the priesthood and may only be a lay preacher, cannot proceed masses any more, etc. [web15]
-- Conviction in January 2002 and imprisonment at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Lancaster, Massachusetts [web01]
-- Aug. 23, 2003: Geoghan is [allegedly] strangled and killed in the cell by his murderer-inmate Joseph Druce [web01]
-- Jan.25, 2006: The murderer Joseph Druce gets a second life sentence without appeal and is now a double murderer [web01]
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87 cr.ped. priests detected in the archdiocese of Boston - cover-up up to the detection on Jan. 6, 2002
During the suppression and cover-up of the 87 criminal pedophile priests of the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Boston, many persons were complices and conspirators: statal boards, reporters, and archbishop Law. They are all CONSPIRATORS.
Archdiocese of Boston, building [63] - The Boston Police Department (Massachusets), the entrance area [3] - The culprit and cr.ped. priest John Geoghan in the 1970s [9] - The cover-up specialist archbishop Cardinal Law (1984-2002), portrait of the 1980s [4]
1970s to 1990s: Cover up by police, lawyers, prosecutors, reporters, and by archbishop Law - the cr.ped. John Geoghan is only one of 20 on the list, at the end 87 are found (!)
John J. Geoghan (born June 4, 1935, died Aug. 23, 2003) was a Roman Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Boston (Massachusets - "USA") [web01] from 1963 to 1992 [web05]. He was a serial child rapist and was - when he was detected in one parish - simply transferred to another parish, even after a treatment for pedophilia [web01].
Geoghan's strategies and tactics to "get on" children and make them liable for sexual abuse:
-- have boxes carried in the rectory [web13 - 1'30 '']
-- show the boys card tricks [web13 - 1'55 '']
-- show the boys erotic card games [web13 - 1'57 '']
-- abuse even during the Holy Week in the Church, and he was caught [web13 - 3'0 '']
-- visit families with many children, bring children to bed, say good night prayer [web14]
-- visit families without a father, take children to eat ice cream [web14]
-- wrestling with boys, putting them in priestly clothes [web14]
-- take young people to the summer house in Scituate, where young people are sexually abused [web14]
-- eat ice cream * [web14]
-- help with bathing * [web14]
-- read bedtime stories * [web14]
-- describe the situation to the children as a confessional and all should be kept secret * [web14]
-- caressing the children's genitals or having oral sex with them, or children have to caress his genitals, sometimes even during his prayer - he stays with the children overnight and wakes them up by playing with their penises ** [web14]
* e.g. family of Joanne Mueller in Melrose with 4 boys without father [web14]
** e.g. family of Maryetta Dussourd in Jamaica Plain with 8 children without a father [web14]
-- evening visits ("putting children to bed", physically controlling children "to their maturity") [web15]
-- children's trips (caressing during the rides: beach trip, camping trip, eat ice cream) [web15]
-- Youth Club (walking naked in the corridor, swimming pool) [web15]
The archbishops in Boston: Medeiros and Law
First there was Cardinal Humberto Medeiros (1970-1983), who was first a bishop in Brownsville (Texas) (1966-1970): Medeiros comes from a Portuguese immigrant family, supports wage demands of field workers, holds field masses in summer, is visiting prisoners during winter [web12], then he becomes archbishop in Boston 1970-1983, counters hostile enemies of Irish racist Catholics who consider him as "third-rate", regains a great reputation among immigrant workers, among the poor and among the minorities, appeals against the abortion law [web12])
Cardinal Medeiros in Boston 1970 (1970-1983), confidant and conspirator in protecting pedophile-criminal priests [51]
Archbishop Cardinal Bernard Law (1984-2002) came from "US" military circles, grew up in various air force bases in various countries, had much to do with civil rights activists after his priestly training, then became a priest in Missouri (1973-1983) and then archbishop in Boston (1984-2002) [web06].
The criminal confidant and conspirator archbishop Cardinal Law 2001 (1984-2002) who protected pedophile-criminal priest [5]
1976: First criminal charge because of child abuse - Geoghan arrested - is released by a prosecutor - Geoghan is relocated again and again
The first message because of cr.ped. priest John Geoghan came in 1976. Geoghan was arrested but released on the orders of a prosecutor. The prosecutor gave instructions not to make a public announcement and to keep the public in ignorance [web02]. Archbishop Cardinal Bernard Law knows about Geoghan's child abuse activities, but does not stop him but places him in other communities [web02].
More protest letters against the pedophile-criminal priest Geoghan
-- In 1982, a protest letter from Margaret Gallant - an aunt of abused nephews - to Cardinal Medeiros [web08]
-- In 1984, a protest letter from Margaret Gallant - an aunt of abused nephews - to Cardinal Medeiros [web08]
-- On Dec.7, 1984 a protest letter of bishop John M. D'Arcy to Cardinal Law with a sharp protest against the continued employment of Geoghan with children [web08] (and as a punishment for his protest letter D'Arcy is transfered (by Satanist pope John Paul II) from Boston to Indiana in the desert to the town of Tucson [web11])
Bischof D'Arcy 2010 after his retirement [77]
In 1993, a reporter from the Boston Globe, Walter Robinson, gets a list of 20 cr.ped. priests from attorney Eric MacLeish. Robinson keeps this list for himself and does not act [web02].
Boston Globe building, aerial view [83] - Walter Robinson, Editor-in-Chief of the Boston Globe [61] - Attorney Eric Mac Leish (left) as victim attorney at a press conference in 2003 [74]
Investigations in the 1990s and 2000s by Spotlight + SNAP: Geoghan is the topic, but there are many more
The investigations in the 1990s and 2000s shook the archdiocese of Boston [web01]. From 1996, the Boston Globe reported regularly on the child abuse of cr.ped. priest John Geoghan [web05]. Geoghan was just one of many pedophile-criminal priests who were always transferred from one to the next parish, so the child abuse continued systematically. For all these transfers, cover-ups and child abuse by cr.ped. priest there is one responsable: the archbishop cardinal Bernard Law [web01].
The entrance to the daily newspaper "Boston Globe" [67] - Boston Globe with Spotlight group of investigative journalists, logo [66]
Details:
March 23, 2001: Article "Cardinal Sin" in the underground press of Boston Phoenix
In the alternative underground press, the criminal-pedophile ex-priest Geoghan was already a topic, e.g. in the Boston Phoenix with the article "Cardinal Sin" [web09].
The principle of Archbishop Bernard Law: The criminal priest is never removed, but always "transferred"
On March 23, 2001, journalist Kristen Lombardi's article "Cardinal Sin" in the Boston Phoenix newspaper revealed the machinations of the criminal Cardinal Law, who was transferring on and on these cr.ped. priests from one location to another so their child abuse could always continue [web09].
Investigative journalist Kristen Lombardi [59]
From September 2001: Spotlight is applied to the diocese - first there are 13 cr.ped. priests, then 87 (!)
In September 2001, Martin Baron [web 05], editor-in-chief of the Boston Globe 2001-2012 [web07], added the journalist group "Spotlight" to investigate the diocese of Boston [web05].
Martin Baren, editor-in-chief of the Boston Globe [58]
The research of the journalist group "Spotlight" in Boston revealed a pattern of child abuse by cr.ped. priests which was protected by archbishop cardinal Law. The investigations are made by
-- by the self-help group "Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests" (SNAP), led by Phil Saviano, and
-- by the journalist group of "Spotlight" [web02].
Victim attorney Phil Saviano [6]
Spotlight and SNAP extend their investigation to 13 priests. An ex-priest who was busy healing pedophile priests, is indicating according to his experience
-- 50% of priests do not live by celibacy, but most live in relationships with other adults
-- About 90 priests from the Archdiocese of Boston (6% of priests) are criminal-pedophiles. 87 names are listed and the victims are visited [web02].
2001: The fight for documents at the criminal archdiocese of Boston: legal proceedings are needed so the criminal archdiocese of Boston hands out documents
At the end of 2001, attorney Mitchell Garabedian stated that there would be documentary evidence that the archbishop cardinal Law knew about the child abuses by his cr.ped. priests, but Law simply ignored these reports. In order to gain access to the documents, the Boston Globe must win a lawsuit against the criminal archdiocese, so that the documents can be viewed and made public (!) [web02]. The main force in this process for the publication of documents is victim lawyer Eric MacLeish [web03].
Victim Attorney Mitchell Garabedian during a 2013 presentation [78] - Attorney Eric Mac Leish (left) as a Victim Attorney at a Press Conference in 2003 [74]
At the beginning of 2002, shortly before the publication of the article in the Boston Globe, reporter Walter Robinson confesses that he had a list of 20 cr.ped. priests from lawyer Eric MacLeish already in 1993, but had said nothing [web02].
Jan. 6, 2002: The article of the Boston Globe - the subject of serial child abuse by cr.ped. priests comes in the mainstream
It was not until the article in the Boston Globe on January 6, 2002, that the pedophile priests in Massachusetts were spotted [web02]. The article presented the cr.ped. priest Geoghan and the implication of archbishop cardinal Law, with links to the documents and a telephone number for further victims of Catholic pedophile priests. The next day Spotlight's journalists were flooded with phone calls from other victims who report abuses by cr.ped. priests [web03].
The article of the Boston Globe of January 6, 2002: The Church allowed child abuse by priests for many years [79]
The collaboration between Geoghan and archbishop cardinal Law
On the 6.1.2002 flew in an article of the Boston Globe the co-operation between the kr.päd. Priest Geoghan and Archbishop Cardinal Law on [web08].
The victim's lawyer Eric MacLeish was now constantly in the newspapers and on television to see. The National Law Journal named him the top trial lawyer [web03].
Attorney Eric Mac Leish (left) as a victim lawyer at a press conference in 2003 [74]
Feb 21, 2002: Geoghan sentenced to 9 to 10 years of maximum security prison
Geoghan's 2002 conviction was 9 to 10 years in the high security prison of Souza-Baranowski [web01] in Lancaster, Massachusetts [web22].
Criminal pedophile Geoghan, portrait of 1999 appr. [1] High security prison Souza-Baranowski in Lancaster (Massachusets), aerial photo [86], fence [85] - meeting zone [84]
The abuse victims of Geoghan get their satisfaction, among others these people here:
Abuse victims of Geoghan, e.g. Paul Mendez [16], Anthony Muzzi [17], Joe Duldong [21], Ralph Delvecchio [26], John Sacco [42], Phil Saviano [6] etc.
2002: The data against Archbishop Cardinal Law
In 2002, the victim's lawyer Eric MacLeish could present details against the conspirator cover-up specialist archbishop cardinal Law during 9 days [web03].
Attorney Eric Mac Leish (left) as a victim lawyer at a press conference in 2003 [74]
December 13, 2002: Cardinal Law resigns
The Boston Globe announced on December 13, 2002, Cardinal Law had resigned [60] - Article of the Boston Globe: Cardinal Law resigns, succeeding by Cardinal Lennon [81]
The head of the ped.cr. conspiracy in Boston, archbishop cardinal Law, was reported as having withdrawn on Dec.13, 2002 [web01].
2003: Geoghan is murdered in the "High Security Prison"
However, security did not seem so important because in 2003 Geoghan was killed by a fellow inmate Joseph Druce [web01].
2003: Pulitzer Prize for Spotlight
The "Spotlight" team of Boston Globe gets the Pulitzer Prize for "courageous, comprehensive coverage in its disclosures of sexual abuse by priests in the Roman Catholic Church [web21 - 11'37'']
2003ca. Documents and compensation for 550 abuse victims
Victim lawyer Eric MacLeish and other victims' lawyers then pursued the archdiocese to hand out finally 1,000 pages of secret documents on the cr.ped. abusing priests. Only now the dimension of all child abuse in the archdiocese of Boston became apparent [web03].
From autumn 2003 MacLeish represented 100s of victims of abuse, whose stories prove the high criminality of of cr.ped. priests. There was e.g. a 9-year-old boy who buried his bloody underwear in the yard so the mother would never find "it" out [web03].
Attorney Eric Mac Leish (left) as a victim lawyer at a press conference in 2003 [74]
Finally, the victim advocates agreed with the criminal archdiocese of Boston to pay $ 85 million in compensation for 550 abused victims, and the victim advocates also became rich in it [web03].
Victim attorney MacLeish handles his own abuse of his own internship
Since 2003, victim advocate Jeffrey Newman noted changes with victim advocate MacLeish [web04]. Victim advocate MacLeish could not distance himself from the fates, became seriously ill with a post-traumatic stress disorder, discovered by the fate of a child with a cr.ped. priest Lane his own abuse [web03] with memories of his internship time with abuse of all kinds [web04], moved from Boston to New Hampshire and since then works there as a law professor at a university [web03].
Eric MacLeish changes his profession for being a law professor in New Hampshire [75] - Eric MacLeish, law professor in New Hampshire on the TV show "Greater Boston" 2013 [76]
2004: Former archbishop Law becomes new Archbishop of a Satanist Vatican basilica in Rome (!)
As a "reward" for his resignation in 2002, Satanist pope John Paul II appointed the conspirator Bernard Francis Law to be the new archbishop of a Satanist Vatican church in Rome (Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore) [web04], one of the five Satanist pope churches in Rome which are rated as "Mayor Basilica" ("Basilica Maiore") [web05].
Boston 2004: Geoghan victim McSorley commits suicide with an overdose of drugs
[web17]
Rome November 2011: Resignation of Law
Archbishop Law resigned in Rome from the position of archbishop of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, he is 80 years old [web04].
2015: Film "Spotlight" about cr.ped. priest and the cover-up by the cr. Church in Massachusets
About the criminal priests in Massachusets the film "Spotlight" was produced, which came out in 2015. The film describes police work in Boston against the criminal priests, which first came to fruition in 2002 with the Boston Globe article [web02]. According to victim lawyer Eric MacLeish some scenes are a fake or are poetry [web03].
Dec. 20, 2017: Death of Archbishop Bernard Law
at the age of 86 [web05].
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Investigation material
December 1999: First hearing of Geoghan in Boston and Cambridge: The cr.ped. priest Geoghan claims in court that he is "not guilty" - victims in the corridor
Video: Dec. 1999 | Fr. Geoghan Is Arraigned On Criminal Charges - Boston Catholic Child Sex Abuse (6'49'')
Video: Dec. 1999 | Fr. Geoghan Is Arraigned On Criminal Charges - Boston Catholic Child Sex Abuse (6'49'')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22kMZP7RQq8 - YouTube Channel: Phil Saviano Channel - upload: Jan. 8, 2012
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TV studio: December 1999: In a previous survey in December 1999 on the sexual abuse of two boys in the 1980s and 1990s, the cr.ped. priest Geoghan was found "not guilty" and is released without bail (14'').
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Woman reporter Janet Wu: Today [1999], Geoghan is 65 years old and is being charged with rape and immoral attacks against three boys less than 10 years old (22''), with the allegations reaching to 1996, and the cases are not barred yet (29''). In total, Geoghan is accused of molesting more than 100 children during his 30-year career as a priest (34''). Some of the victims were present in the courthouse to see the man who had given them nightmares for decades (39'').
After appearing before courts in Suffolk in Middlesex, the prosecutors of Geoghan secretly followed the perpetrator (48''). At the same time Geoghan hid behind a wall with his friends and relatives (50''). Outside the courtroom a few minutes later, however, the emotions went up (56''). Geoghan does not say a word to the journalists (57 ''), victims call him "filthy pig" (1'4 '').
The criminal-pedophile ex-priest John Geoghan in Boston 1999 [13] - he indicates in the courtroom in 1999 that he would be "not guilty" [14] - Geoghan victims in the courtroom 1999 [15]
Victim Paul Mendez: "What sickens me as I saw the same smirk on his face today that I've seen as a little kid (1'9''), and it just brings back bad memories (1'11''). I've been victimized by him, abused by him." (1'15'')
Victim Anthony Muzzi: "I had to contain myself when I saw him, because it all really came back. I got very angry and - ah - hearing his voice, that sent a lot of chills down my spine." (1'24'')
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Victim Mark Keane: "I was disappointed to hear him say "not guilty" (1'27''), - ah - I guess in - I was hoping that he'd buckle." (1'30'')
Woman reporter: "Others say they're more angry at the Catholic Church." (1'33'')
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Victim Joe Sacco: "They've known about it for quite a long time, and they could have avoided a lot of pain and anguish of many families in the community." (1'40'')
Woman reporter Janet Wu: "Geoghan's attorney made a short statement":
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Defense attorney Geoffrey Packard: "None of these charges have yet been sort of tested in the crucible of the courtroom." (1'47'')
Woman reporter Janet Wu: "Both Suffolk and Middlesex District Attorney's say, there will be no charges filed against the Catholic Church and that the archdiocese is cooperating with their investigations (1'56''). If there is no plea bargain the trial could take place as early as next year - in Cambridge: Janet Wu, NewsCenter 5." (2'3'')
Victim Joe Dulong: "He said that he was not guilty, and - but he is: He is guilty (2'9''). He is guilty of molesting many - many young children, and as far as I'm concerned, destroying the life of a young child in their trust that they had, in someone like him (2'22'') - is evil and wrong, and you can't do that (2'22''). you can't do that to young children, and he should have to pay for that. " (2'25'')
TV studio WB56
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TV studio WB56, woman speaker: Geoghan was released without bail in addition to today's charges, he faces 77 lawsuits by people who claimed he molested them (2'34'') as far back as the 1960s. (2'36'').
TV studio WB56: "Priest stood silent, but outside the courtroom, some of his accusers were making a lot of noise. Here's Laura Clarizio" (2'43''). - Now the TV shows a movie how the criminal priest Geoghan is walking through a corridor. There comes a shout from behind: "Get out of here pig!" (2'45'') - "Turn him down!" (2'48'')
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Woman reporter Laura Clarizio (The Ten O'Clock News): "As Father John Geoghan walked the corridors of Suffolk Superior Court, an alleged victim yeled out (2'54''). This morning, the defrocked priest was charged with two counts of rape of a child (2'58''), and indicent assault in battery (3'0'')."
Two victims of Geoghan, Devecchio and Muzzi [24] - Criminal pedophile ex-priest Geoghan in court with black tie, 1999 [25]
The victims Ralph Delvecchio and his cousin Anthony Muzzi say that priest Geoghan sexually abused them when they were little boys (3'8''). Both have filed a civil suit against him (3'10''). In court, they now saw him with the criminal charges of three other cases. "(3'14'')
Victim Ralph Delvecchio: "I saw him, when I was going into the courtroom for the first time in years, and he just kind of stared at me with like daggers." (3'24'')
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Victim Anthony Muzzi: "He made with boys all, they laughed and screamed and he shaked them." (3'28'')
Woman reporter Laura Clarizio (The Ten O'Clock News): "The victim in the criminal case did not want to go on camera, but prosecutors say in one case, Father Geoghan would go to the boy's house during bedtime." (3'36'')
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Prosecutor David Deakin: "Ah, I would say, the priest would - the defendant would pray over the boy, but then fondle his penis." (3'42'')
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Geoghan with defense attorney Geoffrey Packard in the court room pleading: "Not guilty." (3'44'')
Woman reporter Laura Clarizio (The Ten O'Clock News): "In the afternoon, Geoghan was charged at Middlesex Superior Court for indecent assautl and battery on a child (3h50''). he pled not guilty (3h51''). As he left the court, Geoghan said nothing (3'53'') which sparked a lot of anger (3'55''). " (3'55'')
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Victim Paul Mendez shouting to the cr.ped. Geoghan: "You are a filthy pig." (3'57'')
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Defense attorney Geoffrey Packard: "As far as I know - ahm - these allegations have yet to be tested in the crucible of the courtroom (4'4''), so I think in the - in the fullness of time, as the procedure goes on - well - the truth emerges." (4'10'')
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Victim Paul Mendez: "I'm just gonna get a lot of flashbacks and - you know - it's really sickening in there to see him smirk and laugh (4'17''). He has no remorse." (4'19'')
Woman reporter Laura Clarizio: Both judges release Geoghan on personal recognizance, he is due back in court next month. In Cambridge, Laura Laurizio for the 10 o'clock News (4'27'').
FOX News
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FOX News TV studio: "He is not guilty. John Geoghan went to court today where he faced his angry accusers. Fox 52's Mike Beaudet was there and he joins us now with the story. Mike?" (4'35'')
[35,36]
"Curtis, this is the first time the former priest is criminally charged (4'39''). But there are many more people who say, they are victims (4'42''). Tonight, one man's story, a man who says he's haunted by what happened to him." (4'47'')
Geoghan comes walking in the corridor climbing the stairs to the court hall, and a victim is shouting: "You filthy pig!" (4'52'').
The criminal-pedophile priest John Geoghan in the 1970s appr. [37]
Reporter: "Former priest John Geoghan is taunted in court today. Paul Mendez is one of the men shouting (4'59''). He says he was molested by Geoghan in the 1970s." (5'2'')
[38]
Victim Paul Mendez: "He brought me to the pool knowing the pool was closed, then he brought me to his house [rectory"] (5'7'') to molest me, over and over again." (5'10'')
Two court appointments: Boston and Cambridge
Reporter: "A group of people who say Geoghan molested them, were on hand today as the former priest went to court twice, first in Boston, then in Cambridge (5'19''). The 64 year old is arraigned on charges of raping and molesting three boys (5'23''), in the 1980's and 1990's." (5'25'')
Staff member of the court: "Now, what is your plea?" - Geoghan: "Not guilty." (5'27'')
Criminal pedophile ex priest John Geoghan in the court hall 1999 [39] - jury members and staff in the court hall with the Geoghan case 1999 [40] - Criminal pedophile priest Geoghan with Defense attorney Geoffrey Packard pleading "not guilty" [41]
Victim John Sacco: "When I heard his voice, it sounded exactly the same way it was when I was a child (5'33''). You know, he has no remorse, there's no sadness in his voice, or anything. I don't know if he gets it." (5'38'')
Reporter: "Dozens and dozens of people have come forward saying they were sexually abused by the former priest, while he served in parishes around the Boston area (5'47''). Since then, Geoghan was defrocked, removed as a priest, and the archdiocese of Boston has paid millions settling lawsuits by his accusers (5'56''). But these are the first criminal charges against Geoghan." (5'59'')
Criminal pedophile priest Geoghan is laughing, photo from the 1980's appr. [43]
Victim Paul Mendez: "As I came out the courtroom, I looked right at him in his face and I said: 'Thanks a lot' - and he looked right at me for a couple of minutes - he knew exactly who I was." (6'8'')
Criminal pedophile ex priest Geoghan in the court hall in 1999 [39] - jury members and staff in the court hall with the Geoghan case 1999 [40]
Reporter: "Geoghan was released with conditions including staying away from children." (6'12'')
[46]
Reporter are asking Geoghan in the corridor: "These say you victimized them." (6'14'') - Geoghan is simply walking without saying anything. One of the victims is shouting: "Filthy pig! You are a filthy pig!" (6'17'')
[47]
Defense attorney Geoffrey Packard: "None of these charges have yet been sort of tested in teh crucible of the courtroom (6'22''). And I think that - for this is the appropriate place to have them tested and - you know - we'll answer the charges in due course." (6'33'')
[48]
Victim Mendez: "I am disappointed, I am really disappointed, I am hurt that they didn't put him in jail today (6'37''), because that's exactly what he belongs." (6'40'')
FOX News TV studio Reporter: "Mendez says he's been suicidal and is still in therapy, as for Geoghan, he returned to his home in Scituate without saying anything, the case goes back to the court in January." (6'49'')
(eingestellt 2013 [web10])
Boston Phoenix March 23, 2001: Criminal pedophile system in Catholic Church: criminals are Geoghan, Gauthe, Porter, Llanos etc. - behavior disorder with victims - Church giving millions for keeping victims quiet etc.
Cardinal sin
from: http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news/2001_03_23_Lombardi_CardinalSin.htm
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/00882888.htm (seized publication in 2013 [web10])
There are mentioned the following criminal pedophile priests of the "USA":
-- cr.ped. priest John Geoghan (Boston 1962-1993, Massachusets, active as a criminal priest until 1998)
-- cr.ped. priest Gilbert Gauthe: is detected in 1984 (in Lafayette, Louisiana)
-- cr.ped. priest James Porter: is detected in 1992 with a secret record of the confession (Boston, Massachusets)
-- cr.ped. priest Ted Llanos: is detected in 1996, charged complice is cardinal Roger Mahony, Llanos commits suicide in 1997 (Los Angeles)
Geoghan abuse lawsuit, announcement in TV [7]
Strategies of Priest Geoghan for his systematic child abuse:
-- Evening visits ("bring children to bed", physically "check their maturity")
-- Children's trips (fondling them on the rides: beach trip, camping trip, eat ice cream)
-- Youth Club (walking naked in the corridor, fondling in the swimming pool)
Parents who present abuse cases:
-- Family from Melrose 1973
-- Family from Forest Hills 1980
Other accomplices and complices in the archdiocese of Boston:
Confidant and accomplice Cardinal Law since 1972 (organized crime)
The criminal confidant and accomplice Archbishop Cardinal Law 2001 [5]
From 1972, cardinal Law has been proven to be aware of Geoghan's crimes against children:
-- The criminal priest Geoghan was hospitalized by the Archdiocese of Boston since 1972
-- There is a report by Father Doyle from 1985, which reached all bishops of the "USA" and also to cardinal Law - with the title:
"Meeting the Problem of Sexual Dysfunction in a Responsible Way", 126 pages
Confidants are also:
-- priest Miceli
-- the peaker of the archdiocese of Boston: Mr. John Walsh.
Criminal hush money of cr. Catholic Church (this is clear organized crime):
-- By 2001, the Archdiocese of Boston had paid out $ 2.5 to $ 10 million in secret agreements to stop 50 civil actions against Geoghan + other church officials
-- Until 2001, the cr. Catholic Church has spent between $ 850 million and over $ 1 billion in legal fees, secret agreements, and treatment costs for pedophile priests, according to lawyers and victim support groups
Mentioned Judge: James McHugh
Mentioned victim lawyers:
-- Lawyer Lyons
-- Lawyer Mitchell Garabedian
Other laywers
-- Canon lawyer Thomas Doyle
-- Attorney of the Archdiocese of Boston against the victims: Carmen Durso
Mentioned victims:
-- Victim Mark Keane: reacts to the abuse in his life as a gunman
-- Victim Frank Fitzpatrick Jr .: is presenting the cr.ped. priest James Porter with a secret record of his confession
-- Tony Muzzi Jr.
-- Victim Patrick McSorley: reacts to the abuse in his life with seclusion, loses self-esteem
-- Victim Sacco: reacts to the abuse in his life with insecurity in his own children
-- Victim Phil Saviano responds to the abuse by installing a network in Jamaica Plain for people who have survived the abuse of church staff.
victim lawyer Phil Saviano [6]
-- Tom Gutheil, psychiatrist in Boston
Mentioned media:
-- newspaper of the archdiocese of Boston "Pilot"
Original:
<Sex-abuse victims of former priest John Geoghan charge that Cardinal Bernard Law was told of Geoghan’s criminal activity as early as 1984 but did nothing to stop it. Now they want to know why.
By Kristen Lombardi
klombardi@phx.com [this e-mail is not valid any more]
kml2170@columbia.edu [valid in 2019]
Boston Phoenix
March 23, 2001Victim Mark Keane in the youth club - first complaints against Geoghan in 1973 already - hush money: millions for victims so they keep quiet - priest Llanos in LA with suicide 1997 - Cardinal Law could have protected many children
ASK MARK KEANE who orally raped him when he was a teenage boy, and he’ll answer: Father John Geoghan. Ask him who should bear the cross for this heinous act, and he’ll answer: Cardinal Bernard Law.Law, Keane believes, had direct knowledge that Geoghan, who worked in the Archdiocese of Boston from 1962 to 1993, was molesting children. And Law, Keane alleges, didn’t just let the priest keep working; he allowed Geoghan to stay at parishes where he enjoyed daily contact with children — one of whom was Keane.
[Boston: Child abuse by Geoghan with Keane in the back room of the locker room in the youth club]
Keane’s encounter with Geoghan took place at the Waltham Boys and Girls Club some 16 years ago, not long after Law, newly appointed the archbishop and cardinal of the Boston archdiocese, had arrived in town. Keane was about 15 years old. He was a quiet, introverted kid who must have come across as the perfect victim. In a back hallway of the club, behind the boys’ locker room, Geoghan told him to strip off his clothes, Keane says. Then he ordered him to perform oral sex. For the former Waltham resident, who was raised Catholic, the one-time encounter was doubly devastating. He had been molested by a priest — a man who speaks for God. It was a violation of the soul as well as the body.
[Boston: The leaders of the Church knew about the child abuses - first complaints against Geoghan in 1973 already]
Today, the question that haunts Keane isn’t why Father John Geoghan — the now-defrocked priest suspected of fondling, assaulting, and raping hundreds of children over three decades — did what he did. It’s how he managed to get away with it. Keane, 31, cannot believe that Church superiors were unaware of the abuse. After all, others who were allegedly assaulted by Geoghan claim in court documents that their parents had complained to Geoghan’s superiors about his behavior with children as far back as 1973 — that’s 12 years before the then-priest allegedly molested Keane. And court records in Keane’s case against Law charge that the cardinal was warned about Geoghan’s sexual improprieties in September 1984 — just months before the alleged abuse took place. Law (who, through archdiocese spokesperson John Walsh, declined to be interviewed) has denied in court motions that he knew that Geoghan was sexually abusing children and failed to take appropriate action.
[Cardinal Law knew about and did not take measures - judge James McHugh - attorney Mitchell Garabedian]
It’s not known what, if any, facts support the charge that Cardinal Law knew about Geoghan’s criminal activities — the pertinent documents have been ordered sealed until trial. On January 5 [2002], after reviewing a motion and evidence brought by Keane and 24 other plaintiffs allegedly molested by Geoghan after September 1984, Suffolk Superior Court judge James McHugh ruled that Law could be named a defendant in these civil lawsuits currently pending against Geoghan. The Phoenix spoke with two of the 25 plaintiffs after contacting Boston attorney Mitchell Garabedian, who represents all 25 people. Only two plaintiffs, one of whom was Keane, were willing to speak publicly about their experiences.
[Victim Keane]
“I blame the Church for what happened to me,” the gaunt, edgy Keane explains, “and I hold Cardinal Law responsible for my negative experience.”
[84 lawsuits pending against Geoghan]
All told, 84 lawsuits are currently pending against Geoghan. Five bishops — all of whom, as auxiliary Boston bishops, had supervisory authority over Geoghan at some point in his 31-year career— have also been named in many of these civil suits: Robert Banks, currently bishop of Green Bay, Wisconsin; Thomas Daily, bishop of Brooklyn; Alfred Hughes, bishop of Baton Rouge; John McCormack, bishop of Manchester, New Hampshire; and William Murphy, auxiliary bishop of Boston. To some extent, these cases represent a second wave of accusations against Geoghan, who is believed to be one of the most insatiable child molesters uncovered in the ongoing investigations into sexual abuse by Catholic priests.
[Boston: Criminal Church is bribing the victims with hush money of millions of dollars - Church is organized crime]
To date, the archdiocese has reportedly paid between $2.5 million and $10 million to settle 50 civil suits filed against Geoghan, as well as against Church officials. The Phoenix spoke with three of the victims from the first wave of lawsuits, two of whom have settled with the archdiocese for undisclosed sums of money.
[Boston: 3 criminal charges against Geoghan because of violation and bodily harm]
In addition to the 84 civil lawsuits now pending, Geoghan also faces criminal charges: two counts each of child rape and child assault in Suffolk County, and one count of child assault in Middlesex County. Those abuses took place within the last 20 years, which means that they fall within the statute of limitations for prosecuting criminal charges of rape and assault. The names of these victims are withheld in court documents. The oldest case dates back to December 1980 — well before Law was allegedly told of Geoghan’s activities. In that case, a Jamaica Plain man charges that Geoghan assaulted him in the early 1980s, when he was about seven years old. The second case charges one instance of abuse of an 11-year-old Waltham boy in 1992; he would be about 20 years old today [2002]. The last criminal case charges two counts of sexual assault on a 10-year-old Weymouth boy in 1995 and 1996; that boy is about 16 today. It’s not known whether the alleged victims in the two criminal cases from the 1990s plan to sue Law after the criminal trials take place. The first criminal trial is slated to begin September 4 at Suffolk Superior Court. Law is the first Church official to be accused of such negligence while serving as a cardinal.
[LA: 1996: Lawsuit against cr.ped. priest Ted Llanos in Los Angeles - suicide 1997]
[Boston: Cardinal Law is high up in the hierarchy - he could have saved many children with clear decisions]
In 1996, Cardinal Roger Mahony of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles was sued for negligence after one of his priests, Father Ted Llanos, was accused of sexually assaulting nine children. At the time of Llanos’s alleged abuse, Mahoney was the bishop of Stockton, California, where Llanos worked. That suit fell apart in 1997 after Llanos killed himself.
Law, a high-ranking official within the Catholic Church, is one of just eight cardinals in the United States. His boss is Satanist pope John Paul II. [2002]. As head of the fourth-largest diocese in the country, Law wields substantial power. He is a senior member of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB), a canonical body that makes high-level recommendations for the American Catholic hierarchy on pastoral practices, interreligious affairs, and government policy. One Boston attorney who handles clergy sexual-abuse cases says that “suing Law is almost like suing the [Satanist] pope.”
[Lawyer Lyons: Church wanted to "keep quiet" the problem - cases in the whole "USA"]
Still, those familiar with the scope of Geoghan’s behavior are surprised it’s taken so long for Law to face legal action. “This has been a dirty little secret the Church has desperately tried to keep quiet,” charges Stephen Lyons, a Boston attorney. Lyons is best known for defending David and Ginger Twitchell, the Christian Science couple whose child died after receiving inadequate medical care. But he has earned national recognition for his legal work involving clergy sexual abuse. He has successfully litigated more than six lawsuits against the Boston archdiocese and other dioceses nationwide, and says he’s “well aware” of evidence implicating the cardinal — evidence that he cannot reveal because of confidentiality orders. (Lyons has never handled a Geoghan case, nor has he handled a lawsuit against the cardinal.) “As far as I’m concerned,” Lyons says, “it’s extraordinary Law hasn't been named a defendant [in the Geoghan cases] before.”
Louisiana 1984: the case of Gilbert Gauthe
[Louisiana 1984: cr.ped. priest Gilbert Gauthe in Louisiana - information about the dimension of cr.ped. child abuse by priests in the "USA" reach Law by NCCB since 1985]
THE PROBLEM of pedophilic priests first seeped into public consciousness in 1984, when a Catholic priest named Gilbert Gauthe was accused of fondling, assaulting, and sodomizing dozens of boys in Lafayette, Louisiana. Soon after the Gauthe affair made headlines, other lawsuits alleging child molestation by priests were filed across the country. In 1985, according to Father Thomas Doyle, a canonical lawyer who at the time worked for the Satanist Vatican Embassy in Washington, DC, the NCCB — of which Cardinal Law was already a member — was quietly briefed on the extent of pedophilia among the clergy.
Boston 1992: the case of James Porter - confession in TV
[1992: archdiozese of Boston is hit with cr.ped. priests James Porter - victim Fitzpatrick tapes the confession for TV]
Eight years later, in 1992, the issue hit home in Boston when Massachusetts priest James Porter was charged with sexually abusing 28 children — both boys and girls — in three Bristol County parishes. He was found guilty and sentenced to 18 to 20 years in prison; this year [2002], he will come up for parole for the third time. (Many of Porter’s victims appeared at the State House on March 15 [2002] to testify in favor of a bill that would give victims more influence at parole hearings.) The Porter story blew wide open after one of his victims, Frank Fitzpatrick Jr., called the former priest, who had since married and fathered four children, to confront him with memories of the assault. Fitzpatrick then taped Porter’s confession — the broadcast of which convinced many skeptics that the allegations were true.
[Boston: diozese Fall River knew about cr.ped. priest Porter and did NOT warn]
During the investigation and trial, Fitzpatrick, among other victims, charged that top Church authorities at the Diocese of Fall River had known about Porter’s behavior all along. None of the accusations was ever proven true. But scrutiny of the Church grew so intense during this period that Cardinal Law infamously blasted reporters for focusing on what he termed “the faults of a few”: “We deplore that.... By all means we call down God’s power on the media, particularly the Globe.” He also aggressively asserted that there were no additional cases of sexual misconduct by priests, other than those brought to authorities, at the Boston archdiocese. At the time Law made these remarks, Geoghan had already been placed on temporary “sick leave” at least once, according to the Official Catholic Directory. This leave of absence, as alleged in court records, followed a complaint of abuse against Geoghan by one mother of an alleged victim from Jamaica Plain.
[Boston: kr.päd. Priester James Porter confessing in TV becomes a national matter - then Geoghan - Law knew about it for sure]
Porter’s prison sentence — and the tape of his shocking confession — turned his case into a national scandal. And Tom Economus, who directs Link Up, a Chicago-based advocacy group for victims of clergy sexual abuse, ranks the Geoghan scandal as one of the country’s “top 10 most notorious” cases of child molestation by priests. Says Economus, “There have been so many victims, over so many years, and so many lawsuits.” All of which makes it hard for Economus — and many observers — to believe that Law could have remained in the dark about what Geoghan was doing to the children of Boston’s Catholic parishioners.
Science, figures, clinic visits: 2%+4%=6% and dark figure - Geoghan in clinics since 1972, payed by Boston diozese - Geoghan with relapses without end
[Healing treatments for cr.ped. priests - Geoghan is one of the patients - is known in the whole "USA"]
Years before the allegations about Geoghan became public in 1996, his name was familiar within the community of caregivers who treat pedophilic priests. A.W. Richard Sipe, a psychotherapist and former monk who counseled sexually disordered priests in the 1970s and 1980s at the Seton Psychiatric Institute and the Johns Hopkins University Sexual Disorders Clinic, recalls: “Oh, Father Geoghan. He is well known in the circles of those who treat priest pedophiles. He is notorious because he has been treated by so many people, at nearly every psychiatric hospital in the country.”
[Richard Sipe: 2% cr.ped. priests with children, 4% with youths]
[Richard] Sipe, who wrote A Secret World: Sexuality and the Search for Celibacy (Brunner/Mazel, 1990), an analysis of celibacy and the priesthood based on 1500 of his cases, estimates that two percent of American Catholic priests are pedophiles (adults who sexually abuse children), while another four percent are drawn to adolescents. (According to Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, there are 45,699 Catholic priests in the US today [2002]. If Sipe’s estimates are correct, then 914 clergymen are pedophiles. Another 1828 are sexually attracted to teenagers — and act on it.)
[Dard figure up to 40%
In the case of abuse, one must expect a high number of unreported cases, 80 to 90% of unreported cases. So it may be that the abuse staff at the Catholic Church is not 6% but 40%].
[Geoghan in clinics since 1972 already]
Geoghan easily fits the pedophile profile, Sipe says; he maintains that Church superiors had checked the former priest into at least three sexual-abuse-treatment facilities:
-- the Hartford, Connecticut–based Institute of Living;
-- the Silver Springs, Maryland–based Saint Luke Institute; and
-- the now-defunct Baltimore, Maryland–based Seton Institute.
One such check-in, says Sipe, occurred as early as 1972. Men like Geoghan, who are attracted to young boys, “can be difficult to treat,” Sipe explains. “Their brand of pedophilia is well embedded.” For these pedophiles, their sexual compulsion is fundamental to their personalities, much as the need for alcohol is to an alcoholic. Sipe adds, “Anyone who practices his compulsion for a long period of time, as Geoghan is alleged to have done, is certainly harder to deal with.”
[Boston: The diozese sent Geoghan to a treatment]
If Geoghan did, in fact, undergo treatment (his personnel records are sealed pending trial, and no one connected with the lawsuits against him would confirm his treatment history independent of Sipe’s assertions), it would indeed have been likely that the Catholic Church sent him to Saint Luke, which is the foremost treatment facility in the US for priests with sexual problems. Other centers used by the Church today include the Johns Hopkins clinic, the Institute of Living, and the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas, according to those who treat pedophilic priests.
[Treatment of cr.ped. priests working with a step program]
For the most part, the regimen for treating pedophilia involves individual and group therapy to break down denial and a 12-step program, similar to the Alcoholics Anonymous model, to help control sexual addictions. With particularly tough cases, treatment may include such drugs as Depo-Provera, a synthetic compound akin to the female hormone progesterone, which lowers the sex drive. Aversive techniques, including shock therapy, have also been used.
[Archdiozese of Boston has payed the treatement of Geoghan! - And the leaders of this archdiozese don't want have known anything of pedophilia of Geogham - and no change of work]
If Geoghan was, in fact, a patient at any of these treatment facilities, his stay would most likely have been paid for by the Boston archdiocese. Three sources familiar with the treatment of pedophilic priests say that the priests’ bishops, who have direct authority over them, check them in and that the diocese pays for treatment expenses. This, naturally, raises the question of how Church superiors, including Law, could have failed to know about Geoghan’s pedophilia. It also raises the question of why the former priest was not reassigned to a ministry that would have minimized his contact with children.
[Fred Berlin: strategies for pedophile patients after their treatment with monitoring up to 5 years]
Fred Berlin, the founder of the Johns Hopkins Sexual Disorders Clinic, explains that pedophilic patients are closely monitored after being discharged from a program. Often they’re asked to return for weekly visits for as little as six months or as long as five years after completing treatment. Meetings are set up with the local bishops who supervise problem priests, and relapse-prevention strategies are ironed out. Berlin, who has advised the NCCB on treating pedophilia, says that a clergyman with strong pedophilic tendencies “is advised not to go near kids.” Pedophile priests, he adds, “should be reassigned to a prison ministry, for instance.... Any unnecessary exposure to children should be avoided at all costs.” Though pedophilia cannot be cured, he says, it can be successfully treated if such after-care procedures are followed.
[Father Doyle: cr.ped. Deoghan is a relapse without end]
Father Doyle, now an Air Force chaplain, has testified for plaintiffs in clergy sexual-abuse lawsuits. He claims that Geoghan “flunked out” of at least “two or three” pedophile-treatment programs in which he had been enrolled. Although Doyle is careful to say that he has not seen Geoghan’s treatment history, he says he’s spoken with “knowledgeable people” who confirm that it has been long — and ultimately unsuccessful. Flunking out, Doyle explains, means that Geoghan had relapsed after completing an inpatient stint of therapy.
Geoghan in the church: well manipulating the people - his strategies: visits in the evening - excursions with children - youth club
[Sipe: somebody must have ordered Geoghan for treatment]
Sipe also says Geoghan had been through several treatment programs. “Somebody must have thought that he needed treatment again,” he adds. In a separate interview, he says, “Geoghan is what you’d call a predator. He scouts for his victims.... This guy is dedicated to finding young sexual partners.” Yet again, this raises the question: why, if this did happen, was this priest repeatedly assigned to parishes populated with children?"
[Geoghan: Charisma and kindness, children love him]
JOHN “JACK” Geoghan (who declined through his sister Catherine to be interviewed for this article) first swept into the lives of the Catholic faithful in 1962. Then a newly minted priest in his early 20s, Geoghan delighted parishioners at Blessed Sacrament Church in Saugus, where he served as a priest until 1966. Adults were impressed by this charismatic curate, who packed the church during Mass. He especially exhibited an interest in the kids, supervising the altar boys and launching a youth sporting league.“Everyone at the church was thrilled by him,” recalls one former Saugus resident who claims to have been fondled by Geoghan from ages eight to 12. “People would say they were jealous that my family got so much attention from this nice, youthful priest.”
[Crime scenes of Geoghan]
Geoghan enjoyed enthusiastic receptions throughout his 31-year career at the Boston archdiocese. From one parish community to another — Saugus, Concord, Hingham, Forest Hills, Dorchester, and Weston (see “Change of Address,” left) — parents opened up their homes and hearts to the likable priest. Children admired and even idolized this larger-than-life figure. Short, trim, brimming with energy, Geoghan could light up a room full of kids with little more than his unmistakably high-pitched voice.
[Victim Tony Muzzi Jr.]
“He was a happy-go-lucky guy,” remembers Tony Muzzi Jr., who has charged Geoghan with molesting him in Hingham in the late 1960s and early 1970s. “He was always smiling, laughing. I thought he was funny in the beginning.”
[Victim McSorley]
“My family just loved Father Geoghan,” says Patrick McSorley, a Hyde Park telecommunications specialist who says Geoghan molested him in 1986, and who is one of the 25 plaintiffs suing Cardinal Law. McSorley’s older siblings met the former clergyman while attending St. Andrew’s School in Forest Hills, where he worked from 1974 to 1980. “He’d go out in the schoolyard and visit all the kids. Everyone adored him,” he says.
[Geoghan's strategy: Family visits during evening times, body "inspections"]
But it wasn’t long before an odd side to Geoghan’s personality emerged. He developed a habit of stopping by parishioners’ homes in the late-evening hours — just in time to tuck the children into bed as the parents tidied the kitchen after dinner. He liked to wrestle the boys, or rub their backs, or settle them down in his lap. Sometimes, he offered to check the boys’ bodies for proper development.
[Geoghan's strategy: caressing children's bum - caressing genitals - rapes]
Reviews of the 84 civil-suit records and lengthy interviews with five of Geoghan’s alleged victims show that Geoghan began sexually abusing parishioners’ sons — and, in some cases, their daughters — almost as soon as he would arrive at a newly assigned parish. The assaults ranged from caressing a child’s behind to fondling the genitalia to more aggressive behavior — such as orally raping boys as young as seven. For some victims, like Keane, the encounters with Geoghan were one-time ordeals. Others, though, were attacked repeatedly for as long as Geoghan remained assigned to a parish.
[Geoghan's strategy: elect families without father - make excursions with children: beach, camping, icecream - victim Jim Sacco]
The victims’ stories sound eerily similar. Many cases involved prepubescent boys who lacked strong father figures — their fathers had died, for instance, or frequently traveled on business trips. Often the alleged abuse took place in their own homes, in their own beds. Other times, Geoghan took children out for a day of fun — driving them to the beach, to campgrounds, and to the local ice-cream shop — only to pull over on a dimly lit street once he had them alone and fondle them in the car. “He had different patterns with different kids,” recalls Jim Sacco, now 46. Sacco is one of six siblings — five brothers and a sister — all of whom have publicly charged Geoghan with repeatedly molesting them during his ministry at Blessed Sacrament in the early 1960s. The family settled its lawsuit against the archdiocese in April 1998; a confidentiality agreement prohibits them from revealing the amount. “With us, [the abuse] started in the bedroom,” Sacco adds. “With other victims, it was on car rides. His big thing was taking kids for ice cream.”
[1980s: Geoghan's strategy in the Waltham Boys and Girls Club: strut aroung without clothes - youths find it "funny"]
As Geoghan grew older, it seems, he also grew more brazen in his sexual advances. While assigned to St. Julia’s Church in Weston in the mid 1980s, he made a name for himself at the nearby Waltham Boys and Girls Club because of his penchant for strutting around without clothes.
“He was referred to as ‘the Naked Guy,’ ” Keane explains. “He would walk down a hallway from the boys’ locker room to the weight room — in plain sight — in the nude. Once, he came out naked, carrying a white towel. We thought it was hilarious.”
[Geoghan 1980s: swim with children in a pool]
Those who met the priest at the Waltham club say that he used to swim up to children in the pool and fondle them.
Geoghan in St. Anne's Church
[1996: abuse in the vestry of St. Anne's Church]
At least one victim has accused Geoghan of molesting him in 1996 in the vestry of St. Anne’s Church in Readville — before Geoghan, then retired, was scheduled to perform a baptism ceremony.
Victims keep quiet - cannot put this into words - or they are not believed
[Victims mean they would be "the only victim" and don't tell anything]
Most victims never mentioned their ordeals to anyone — not to older brothers who shared the same bedroom, not to younger cousins who went on weekly outings with the priest. Instead, they lived with the haunting conviction that they were the only ones. Some couldn’t have articulated their experiences even if they’d wanted to.“I cannot explain how or why or what I was thinking as a child,” says Sacco, who kept his experience hidden from his family for more than 20 years. “I look back and ask myself, ‘How could I let this happen?’ The only thing I can think of is fear.”
[The authorithy for a fantasy "god" is abusing children - children cannot tell this]
Geoghan, after all, was a priest; and, as McSorley puts it, “priests were supposed to be good, holy men.” As Catholics, victims like McSorley had been taught that priests speak for God. As children, they often thought that priests possessed godlike powers. Who would believe that a priest — a priest — could do something so vile?
[Parents don't believe their children counting from the sexual attacks]
Those who hinted at the assaults tended to be dismissed. Muzzi still remembers the day his cousin, another alleged victim from Hingham, half-jokingly told his mother that Father Geoghan liked to touch the boys. “She got all bent out of shape,” Muzzi recounts. “She was upset. She was screaming, ‘How could you talk about a priest like that?’ ” After witnessing his aunt’s reaction, Muzzi figured there was no point in telling his own parents. “In their eyes,” he explains, “Geoghan was like a movie star.... They would never have believed me.”
Parents presenting the cases: family from Melrose in 1973, family from Forest Hills in 1980
[1973: The family from Melrose reports child abuse with boys by Geoghan]
But not every parent reacted to such news with disbelief. According to court records, at least two mothers took their concerns about Geoghan’s activities to Church officials at various points during his decades-long tenure. One mother, formerly of Melrose, says that she approached Father Paul Miceli at St. Mary’s Parish back in 1973 and voiced her suspicions that Geoghan was molesting all four of her sons. According to the family’s pending civil suit, Miceli, who now heads the ministerial-personnel department at the Boston archdiocese, reassured the mother that Geoghan (a friend of the mother’s family who was stationed at St. Paul’s in Hingham at the time) would undergo treatment, and that he would never be a clergyman again.
[Family of Melrose: even priest Miceli means the only way would be to be quiet - he means that praying would help]
In a court deposition, the mother testified that Father Miceli brought her and her four sons into a private room at St. Mary’s, where they proceeded to tell him about Geoghan’s alleged assaults.
“Father Miceli was very, very compassionate,” the mother said. “He understood our hurt, our confusion.... But the resolution was ... to tell the boys to try not to think about this. ‘Bad as it was,’ he said, ‘just try. Don’t think about it. It will never happen again.’ ”
The woman continued: “He prayed with all of us that, you know, God will watch over us.... He said, ‘This is a horrible, terrible thing.... It’s a disgrace,’ he said. ‘Let me take care of this. Will you trust me and let me handle this?’ ” (Through archdiocese spokesperson John Walsh, Miceli declined to be interviewed. He has been named as a defendant in 57 of the 84 pending lawsuits.)
[1980: family in Forest Hills with abused boys by Geoghan]
But seven years after Miceli’s promise that Geoghan would never get away with molesting children again, and after the archdiocese had reassigned Geoghan from Hingham to St. Andrew’s Church in Forest Hills, another mother made the same complaint. According to court records, the Jamaica Plain mother allegedly confided in the Reverend John Thomas, then the pastor at her neighborhood parish. She told Thomas, now [2002] retired and living in Framingham, that Geoghan was sexually abusing her sons and nephews, who ranged in age from six to 11. (Thomas did not return two phone calls seeking comment.)
Geogham may "continue" from 1980 to 1998
[until 1980: Geoghan 4 times kicked out - treatment - and new Church service - child abuse until 1998 - lawsuit against Geoghan in Suffolk in 1996 - kicked out from priesthood in 1998]
By 1980 — after transferring Geoghan to four parishes in nearly 20 years — Church authorities had evidently grown concerned enough about the priest’s behavior to alter their standard course of action. That year [1980], in fact, Geoghan was removed from St. Andrew’s Church and placed on temporary “sick leave” for the first time. In 1981, he returned to the Boston archdiocese and resumed his priestly duties — first at St. Brendan’s Church in Dorchester, and then at St. Julia’s Church in Weston, where he stayed until retiring from active priestly duty in 1993.Geoghan continued to sexually assault children for two more years until 1995, when his superiors put him on sick leave yet again. Three more years would pass before Cardinal Law finally defrocked Geoghan — or “laicized” him, meaning that Geoghan was returned to layman’s status — thereby stripping him not only of the right to celebrate Mass, but also of the collar that he’d long used to get close to children. The laicization occurred two years after a civil lawsuit — the first, as it turned out, of many — was filed in 1996 in Suffolk Superior Court by a Waltham mother whose three sons number among Geoghan’s alleged victims.
For those awaiting their day in court, the extent of Geoghan’s crimes — which spanned his lengthy career — boggles the mind. Says Keane, “Geoghan went from parish to parish to parish, leaving behind, at every step, a trail of damaged and molested kids.”
The wounds by sexual abuse
[Victim Phil Saviano with a network for survivors in Jamaica Plain (a district in Boston)]
TO THIS day [2002], people whom Geoghan allegedly victimized are still stepping out of the shadows, identifying themselves to relatives, lawyers, and fellow victims. [Victim] Phil Saviano, who heads the Jamaica Plain–based chapter of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, continues to receive calls. “Just in these past few months I heard from another Geoghan victim who hasn’t been [reported on] in the news media yet,” he says. “I’m sure there are more people like that out there.”
[Victim Sacco: blocked rememberence]
Some victims — like Sacco, who has never forgotten the abuse (“It’s been in my head every single day,” he says) — were drawn forward soon after the first allegations surfaced in the press. But for others, it took years of seeing Geoghan’s face and name plastered across newspapers and TV screens before they could accept their childhood traumas. Even then, many, like McSorley, kept their newfound memories to themselves. “I had a hard time putting what happened into words,” he explains. “It’s like bringing skeletons out of the closet.”
Reactions by sexual abuse with the victims: behavior disorder
[Reactions from depression to suicide]
For victims of sexual abuse, their wounds, like scar tissue, never completely disappear. Typically, they experience what Tom Gutheil, a Boston-based forensic psychiatrist, calls “the full spectrum of reaction.” Following an abusive encounter — and, in some cases, for years afterward — victims can become depressed, withdrawn, anxious, insecure, angry, guilt-ridden, and paranoid. “It varies for each victim,” Gutheil says. “It’s possible to walk away relatively unscathed, but that’s one end of the spectrum. The other can be suicide.”
Perhaps even more poignantly, victims of clergy sexual abuse suffer from a distinct sense of betrayal, one that can linger with them for decades. Being sexually abused by a priest, as Gutheil notes, “shakes your faith in your faith, and that’s quite damaging to victims — emotionally and spiritually.”
[Victim Keane and his reaction to abuse: violence]
Many of Geoghan’s adult accusers have displayed a textbook reaction to sexual abuse. Right after what he calls “the incident,” Keane, for example, became a violent teenager. He hung with the wrong crowd. He bought a gun. He made bombs. His schoolwork suffered so much that he had to repeat a grade.
“I didn’t realize the connection then,” says Keane, who blocked his memory of Geoghan for 15 years until 1999, when he and his wife, Ann, were taking a class about child abuse in preparation for becoming foster parents. During the class, Keane studied cases of children who had been sexually abused — cases that ended up triggering his memory. “Now,” he adds, “my behavior [as a teen], it all makes sense.”
[Victim McSorley and his reaction: withdrawn, no self-esteem, no confidence in nobody]
There are those, like McSorley, 26 [in 2001], whose battles have been waged internally — quietly but wrenchingly. For years now, he has suffered from low self-esteem. He’s become a shy, anxious person who cannot sit for more than 10 minutes without pulling at his pant legs, wringing his hands, and running his fingers through his cropped black hair. Unable to trust, McSorley has almost no close friends. “Sometimes,” he explains, “I break out in a sweat meeting people. I feel all nervous. I feel very out of place.”
[Victim Sacco and his reaction: unsafety with his own children]
Then there are those, like Sacco, for whom the Geoghan legacy resonates in more subtle yet equally insidious ways. In the two years since his settlement, Sacco has led an outwardly healthy life: he works as a banker in Amherst, New Hampshire; he lives in a spacious house; he has a loving family. But he is afraid to be overly affectionate with his three daughters — for fear that he may harm them. He is afraid to let his children be near adults — for fear that others may hurt them. And, as a survivor of abuse, he is afraid he may never fully recover. “I feel I’m not right,” Sacco says. “Something was taken from me — my innocence, my childhood — and it will never be fixed.”
The impotent Cath. Church not solving the problem
[Bitterness and rage against Cath. Church which has not kicked out Geoghan at once]
These Geoghan victims have more in common than the effects of trauma. Today, they share a profound sense of bitterness and rage against the Catholic Church for what one of them calls “a huge web of deceitful priests” who placed the welfare of a clergyman above that of their parishioners’ children. How else, they ask, can they interpret the fact that Geoghan, with his six transfers, received so many second chances? Or that at least two mothers complained of his behavior early on — before victims like McSorley were even born — to no avail? “The more I find out, the angrier I get,” Muzzi says. “His superiors let [Geoghan] roam free with flocks of kids for years. That’s like handing a murderer a gun and saying, ‘Here, go have fun.’ ”[Helpless "excuse" of Cardinal Law in 1998 in the newspaper "pilot"]
Victims are equally embittered over the way the Boston archdiocese has handled the scandal. On the one hand, they say, Church authorities have made an outward show of repentance. In June 1998, for example, the archdiocese offered a ceremonial apology to all of Geoghan’s victims, in which Cardinal Law recognized the shortcomings of such a statement: “Unfortunately, an apology does not have the capacity to erase the painful memory,” Law wrote in the Pilot, a newspaper published by the Boston archdiocese, “nor does it heal and restore, nor does it overcome anger and resentment.” The archdiocese then held a series of “healing Masses,” at which priests led parishioners in a collective Act of Contrition for Geoghan’s misdeeds. Most important, it announced Geoghan’s laicization, a rare punitive measure that was reported in press coverage at that time as a first for the 126-year-old archdiocese. (It is unclear whether the archdiocese has laicized other priests; spokesperson Walsh says the archdiocese does not make public its records of priest laicizations.)
[Victim Muzzi gets no answers from the archdiozese]
Victims, though, say that when the Church has dealt with them privately, officials have been anything but contrite. Once the pain of his repressed memories came flooding back in 1997, Muzzi called the Boston archdiocese seeking relief. He wanted answers: why had Geoghan traveled from parish to parish for so long? Why was he still employed? But instead of giving him what he wanted, Muzzi remembers, “the Church suggested I seek legal counsel. It was like hitting a stone wall.”
[Victim Saco claims: the excuse of 1998 contains only 2 phrases about the victims]
His frustration is echoed by Sacco, who, despite receiving his own settlement, remains critical of the archdiocese. “The focus of the Church’s response is never the victims,” he says. For all the public apologies and ceremonial acts, Sacco notes, the Catholic Church still manages to fight the victims — both inside and outside the courtroom. In 1998, Cardinal Law formed an advisory committee made up of victims to address clergy sexual abuse. Yet the committee — whose formation was required by Sacco’s own settlement — met just five times in 1999. Today, that group no longer exists.Even the Church’s positive steps, such as defrocking Geoghan, can come across as little more than public relations. Take the 1998 apology, which was issued the day after Geoghan’s laicization. In the nine-paragraph statement, Cardinal Law devoted just two sentences to “those who have been so victimized, as well as their families.” Compare that to the three he spent praising good priests, of whom he wrote: “[They] inspire me by their integrity, their zeal, and their fidelity. So easily can they be taken for granted, for they are always there for us. The misconduct of a few in their ranks is a burden for them all.”
As Sacco himself describes it: “It’s a pile of crap.”
Hush money and costs of billions
[Hush money is organized crime]
TO SAY that sexual-abuse scandals like the one involving Geoghan have affected the Roman Catholic Church seems an understatement. The Church has spent anywhere from $850 million to more than $1 billion in legal fees, settlements, and treatment expenses for pedophilic priests, according to attorneys and victim-support groups. But the price the Church has paid in broken trust is incalculable. Church superiors, once pillars of morality whose judgment was never second-guessed, have had to defend their practices, and even to defend themselves.
[Cardinal Law was INFORMED in detail since 1985]
In 1999, Law said that 'were we able to put ourselves back 10, 20, 30 years ... with the knowledge we have now,' the Church would have handled the Geoghan cases differently. But evidence that Law had been given a detailed report about clergy sexual abuse in 1985 raises questions about his credibility.[Caplan Doyle criticizing Cath. Church because of concealing tactics]
The issue has also alienated many within the ranks of the Catholic clergy. Father Doyle, the Air Force chaplain, has become one of the few clergymen nationwide to speak out publicly against current Church policy. He criticizes the hierarchy for what he calls “the knee-jerk reaction of bishops to try to cover up priests with sexual disorders.”
[Caplan Doyle 1986: report 126 pages with warnings from lawsuits because of sexual abuse]
Back in 1985, in fact, Doyle co-authored and then presented a 126-page report, “Meeting the Problem of Sexual Dysfunction in a Responsible Way,” to all American bishops, including Cardinal Law. The document outlined the growing sexual-abuse lawsuits and warned that the problem would escalate if the Church failed to take certain steps, such as tracking reports of abuse and establishing mandatory, uniform policies for all 188 US dioceses. But the report, Doyle explains, “was summarily shelved.”
[Cardinal Law was informed clearly in 1985 - and lied in 1999]
Interestingly, Law was quoted in the Boston Herald on December 3, 1999, as saying that “were we able to put ourselves back 10, 20, 30 years ... with the knowledge we have now,” the Church would have handled the Geoghan cases differently. But evidence that Law had been given a detailed report about clergy sexual abuse and how to manage it more than 15 years ago — in 1985 — raises questions about his credibility. Or, as Keane puts it: “We come to find out that the cardinal had lied.”
[Cardinal Doyle: Church is like a big company: it's only a matter of reputation and money - the victims are not important - the priest's reputation has gone]
Doyle maintains that the Catholic Church has long managed itself much as a large corporation would. Clergy sexual-abuse scandals, he says, are perceived as bad for the Church’s image, internal morale, and fiscal stability. “My naive and silly way of thinking,” Doyle adds, “is that we are not a normal corporation. We are a spiritual institution, and our first priority should be the victims.”Of course, he recognizes that clergy sexual abuse has severely damaged the priesthood — so much so that many parishioners despise the clergy. “I cannot tell you how many people have said they still believe in God, but won’t go near a Catholic church,” he explains. As a priest, he adds, “I feel profoundly ashamed and embarrassed.... I can no longer believe in the sanctity of the institutional Church.”
[Speaker John Walsh: sexual abuse wounds the Church]
At the chancery of the Boston archdiocese, not many are likely to share such sentiments — publicly, anyway. Still, the weight of this issue — and the toll of cases like Geoghan’s — can be heard in the sobering voice of archdiocese spokesperson John Walsh, who, while not a priest, admits: “The problem [of clergy sexual abuse] has wounded the Church.”
Walsh refuses to comment on the Geoghan cases, including those that involve Cardinal Law. “It’s our policy not to discuss any pending litigation,” he explains.
Mixed review board since 1993
[Changed praxis since 1993: each complaint is investigated by a mixed review board - priests are kicked]
Speaking generally, however, he says that the Catholic Church, particularly the Boston archdiocese, has changed “dramatically” as a result of clergy sexual-abuse scandals. Whereas once the Church had failed to recognize the “damage wrought” by sexual abuse, Walsh explains, there are now procedures in place to review every complaint. In Boston, the archdiocese instituted its policies in 1993, not long after the Porter cases made headlines. A key policy element mandates an established review board, made up of priests, lawyers, psychiatrists, and social workers, to evaluate allegations. The nine-member board investigates every charge by interviewing the victims and the priests; it also offers treatment to victims. If a charge of sexual misconduct is found to be true, the archdiocese vows to permanently remove that priest from active service. “These things mark a greater openness on the part of the Church,” Walsh says. “Our experience has been hard won, our learning curve steep.” (Just how many priests the archdiocese has discharged under this procedure is unknown because, Walsh says, “we do not comment on the dispositions of cases.”)
[And with this behavior the Church is continuint in the dark like before!]Walsh insists that, although it’s not above criticism, the Boston archdiocese under Law’s tenure has made a “good-faith effort” to confront clergy sexual abuse, rather than deny and cover up its existence. “Our whole posture should not be cavalier, and I don’t think we have been,” he says. “Our focus needs to be and has been on the victims.”
But then, Walsh knows that in the eyes of the victims, the Catholic Church may never be able to atone for what he describes as the “terrible tragedy” they’ve endured. He also knows the Church may never be able to convince them that it has tried. As Walsh puts it, “Could we ever look someone who has endured this tragedy in the eye and say, ‘We’ve done enough?’ I don’t think so.”
2001: Geoghan AND Law are suited
[The victims are waiting for the truth with cardinal Law in the witness stand]
Indeed, perhaps the only way the Church can make amends for this issue is through the courts. Among Geoghan’s accusers, there is now an overwhelming sense of elation that Law, too, is being sued. For them, the 25 lawsuits against the cardinal represent a chance to learn the truth. How else, they ask, will they discover the facts, if not by listening to Law on the witness stand? Only trial will reveal who, if anyone, within the archdiocese knew about the former priest’s sexual improprieties. Only trial will confirm what many suspect: that Geoghan’s superiors turned a blind eye to his behavior while shuffling him among six parishes. “How will we ever know for sure what went on with Geoghan unless [the cases] go to trial?” asks Saviano of Survivors Network. “Thank God someone is trying to hold the Church accountable.”[The tactic of the archdiozese of Boston against the victims is rejected by judge McHug]
Trial, however, could prove to be a dangerous thing for the archdiocese, especially if there is evidence that links Law to the Geoghan cases. So far, the archdiocese’s attorneys have taken an aggressive approach. They have filed three motions to dismiss these cases, arguing that determining whether Church superiors properly supervised Geoghan would force the court to examine canon law, which is shielded by the First Amendment. They have also tried to seal from the public all documents and court motions related to the Law allegations. Both moves were shot down by Judge McHugh. (Wilson Rogers Jr., who represents the archdiocese, did not return repeated phone calls seeking comment.)
[Lawyer Carmen Durso: Criminal Catholic Church will spend any bribe for protecting criminal Cardinal Law]
Given the Catholic Church’s reputation for fighting such lawsuits as if pursuing “trench warfare, all hammer and tongs” (as one lawyer puts it), some observers predict that the Law allegations will never be put to a jury — thereby leaving unanswered the question of whether the archdiocese has protected sexually abusive priests. Explains Boston attorney Carmen Durso, who handles clergy sexual-abuse claims, “The archdiocese is going to do all it can to beat down these cases.”
Economus, of Link Up, concurs. “It’d be so damaging to the Catholic Church to allow a cardinal to go on trial,” he says. “The Boston archdiocese will do and pay whatever it takes to make sure Law isn’t affected by all this.”
How the legal drama will unfold remains to be seen, of course. But for the 25 Law accusers, whatever the future brings cannot compare to what the past has dealt. The Geoghan legacy, after all, has consumed much of their lives. So no matter what these civil lawsuits yield — be it money, be it Law’s retirement — nothing can erase the pain of believing that Geoghan’s superiors might have chosen to protect a man of the cloth rather than defenseless children.
In the words of Keane himself, “Geoghan may be a sick, twisted person, but he is sick. In my mind, the fact that his superiors, people as powerful as Cardinal Law, could take steps to hide and protect a pedophile is a much worse crime.”>
Here is the report of the Boston Globe of Jan.6, 2002 about the abusor priest Geoghan - this article brought also the consipration with cardinal Law - provoking a national discussion of that topic of child abuse in the criminal pedophile Catholic Church:
Boston Globe Jan.6, 2002: Criminal Catholic Church with child abuse by gay pedophile priests without end - example Geoghan:
Church allowed abuse by priest for years
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/special-reports/2002/01/06/church-allowed-abuse-priest-for-years/cSHfGkTIrAT25qKGvBuDNM/story.html
The research of the Boston Globe with the Investigative Group "Spotlight" lasted 5 months in 2001. The article of January 6, 2002 presents the conspiratorial network between criminal priests and criminal cardinals. At first, it was just a pedophile-criminal priest, John Geoghan. During the research, more and more criminal pedophile priests came out, 20, 100s of them were detected. The dimension of the crime in the Catholic Church against its own people abusing the children's families for child abuse was giant and it was perfectly organized [web18] - that is why the Catholic Church is an ORGANIZED CRIME.
-- culprit: cr.ped John Geoghan
Culprit and cr. ped. priest John Geoghan in the 1970's [9]
Geoghan's strategies and tactics to "get on" children and make them liable for sexual abuse:
-- visit families with many children, bring children to bed, say good night prayer
-- visit families without a father, take children to eat ice cream
-- wrestling with boys, putting them in priestly clothes
-- take young people to the summer house in Scituate, where young people are sexually abused
-- eat ice cream *
-- help with bathing *
-- read bedtime stories *
-- describe the situation to the children as a confessional and all should be kept secret *
-- caressing the children's genitals or having oral sex with them, or children have to caress his genitals, sometimes even during his prayer - he stays with the children overnight and wakes them up by playing with their penises **
* e.g. family of Joanne Mueller in Melrose with 4 boys without father
** e.g. family of Maryetta Dussourd in Jamaica Plain with 8 children without a father.
Mentioned persons in the article
-- Geoffrey Packard, defense lawyer for Geoghan
-- Geoghan's family lives in West Roxbury, Geoghan himself has a "summer house" in Scituate.
Archbishop and Cardinal Medeiros
-- Cardinal Humberto Medeiros, predecessor to Cardinal Law in Boston, received in August 1982 a letter of protest from an aunt (Margaret Gallant) of 7 children who were abused by Geoghan
(He was bishop in Brownsville, Texas 1966-1970: comes from a Portuguese immigrant family, supports field laborers' wage demands, holds field fairs in the summer, makes prisoner visits in winter [web12], then he became an archbishop in Boston 1970-1983, was attacked by Irish racist Catholics, who regard him as a "third class" cardinal, but he can work for a great reputation among immigrant workers, among the poor and among minorities, appeals against the abortion law [web12])
Persons aroung archbishop and cardinal Law
-- Wilson D. Rogers Jr., lawyer of cardinal Law
-- Wilson Rogers 3d, the son of the lawyer of cardinal Law
-- Donna Morrissey, a woman speaker of cardinal Law
5 bishops and confidants (conspirators) of Geoghan:
-- Thomas V. Daily of Brooklyn, N.Y.
-- Robert J. Banks of Green Bay, Wis.
-- William F. Murphy of Rockville Center, N.Y.
-- John B. McCormack of Manchester, N.H.
-- and archbishop Alfred C. Hughes of New Orleans.
-- Geoghan has forced vacations, for example in 1989: Geoghan is 6 months ill.
Institute, where Geoghen got a "treatment"
-- Sipe, psycho therapist at Seton Institut in Baltimore
-- Seton-Institute in Baltimore.
Mentioned pastors of Geoghan
-- Pastor John E. Thomas, the contact person of mother Maryetta Dussourd in Jamaica Plain (district in Boston)
-- Mr. Daily expells Geoghan from Jamaica Plain
-- Pastor Lane, parish St. Brendan's, was not informed
-- Francis S. Rossiter, the pastor of the parish of Geoghan in St. Julia's, he knows about Geoghan's sex problems.
Mentioned protests against the sexual abuse animal Geoghan
-- Letter of Protest: Margaret Gallant, aunt of 7 children who were abused by Geoghan, Gallant wrote in August 1982 to the Cardinal of Boston Mr. Humberto Medeiros - a protest letter against Geoghan's reinstatement
-- Letter of protest: Bishop John M. D'Arcy sends a warning letter to Cardinal Law about Geoghan, Dec.7, 1984 (and is punished by the criminal church (Satanist pope John Paul II!): for his warning John Paul II transfers D'Arcy from Boston to Indiana in the desert [web11])
-- Ex-priest A.W. Richard Sipe, now a psychotherapist
-- Ex-priest Anthony Benzevich (statement: Geoghan frequently took little boys to his bedroom)
-- Victim attorney Mitchell Garabedian (who represents almost all plaintiffs in civil suits against Geoghan and church officials)
-- Joanne Mueller, single mother of 4 boys (5 to 12) in Melrose, with affidavit on Geoghan abuse
-- Pastor Paul E. Miceli of the parish of St. Mary in Melrose, contact person for the affected mother Joanne Mueller
Staff from Boston Globe
-- Jonathan M. Albano, laywer of Boston Globe
-- Matt Carroll
-- Sacha Pfeiffer
-- Michael Rezendes
-- Walter V. Robinson
Cr.ped. priest Porter
-- culprit: cr.ped. priest James Porter
-- victim's attorney Roderick MacLeish Jr. representing the Porter victims.
Alcoholic priest Driscoll
-- Priest Nicholas Driscoll has an alcohol problem, parish of St. Julia
Investigative journalists of the Spotlight group at Boston Globe: Sacha Pfeiffer [65], Michael Rezendes [62], Walter Robinson [61]
The article:
<Aware of Geoghan record, archdiocese still shuttled him from parish to parish.
This article was prepared by the Globe Spotlight Team: reporters Matt Carroll, Sacha Pfeiffer, and Michael Rezendes; and editor Walter V. Robinson. It was written by Rezendes.
[Boston: priest Geoghan busted with over 130 abuse cases]
Since the mid-1990s, more than 130 people have come forward with horrific childhood tales about how former priest John J. Geoghan allegedly fondled or raped them during a three-decade spree through a half-dozen Greater Boston parishes.Almost always, his victims were grammar school boys. One was just 4 years old.
Then came last July’s disclosure that Cardinal Bernard F. Law knew about Geoghan’s problems in 1984, Law’s first year in Boston, yet approved his transfer to St. Julia’s parish in Weston. Wilson D. Rogers Jr., the cardinal’s attorney, defended the move last summer, saying the archdiocese had medical assurances that each Geoghan reassignment was “appropriate and safe.”
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. And for good reason, the Spotlight Team found: The archdiocese already had substantial evidence of Geoghan’s predatory sexual habits. That included his assertion in 1980 that his repeated abuse of seven boys in one extended family was not a “serious” problem, according to an archdiocesan record.
The St. Julia’s assignment proved disastrous. Geoghan was put in charge of three youth groups, including altar boys. In 1989, he was forced to go on sick leave after more complaints of sexual abuse, and spent months in two institutions that treat sexually abusive priests. Even so, the archdiocese returned him to St. Julia’s, where Geoghan continued to abuse children for another three years.
[Catholic Church was not capable to protect children from Geoghan]
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 Geoghan’s reach?Donna Morrissey, a spokeswoman for Law, said the cardinal and other church officials would not respond to questions about Geoghan. Morrissey said the church had no interest in knowing what the Globe’s questions would be.
Before Geoghan ever got to Weston in 1984, he had already been treated several times and hospitalized at least once for molesting boys. And he had been removed from at least two parishes for sexual abuse. In 1980, for instance, he was ordered out of St. Andrew’s in Jamaica Plain after casually admitting he had molested the seven boys.
In 1981, after a year’s sick leave, Geoghan was dispatched to St. Brendan’s in Dorchester, with little chance he would be placed under scrutiny: His pastor for most of his 3 1/2 years there, the Rev. James H. Lane, has told friends he was never warned that Geoghan had a history of sex abuse.
In September 1984, complaints that Geoghan had abused children at the Dorchester parish prompted Law to remove him. Two months later, the cardinal gave Geoghan a fresh start at St. Julia’s.
Law allowed Geoghan to stay in Weston for more than eight years before removing him from parish duty in 1993. 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.
Finally, in 1998, the church “defrocked” Geoghan, removing him from the priesthood.
[Case Jan. 14 in Middlesex - case end of Feb. in Suffolk]Geoghan’s criminal defense attorney, Geoffrey Packard, said his client would have no comment on any of the allegations against him. Geoghan’s first trial on sexual molestation charges is scheduled for Jan. 14 [2002] in Middlesex Superior Court. The second, more serious set of charges are due to be tried in Suffolk Superior Court in late February. In the civil lawsuits, Geoghan has no attorney, and is not contesting the charges.
The church’s likely legal defense, as Rogers (Wilson D. Rogers Jr., lawyer of Kardinal Law) hinted in July, will be that doctors deemed Geoghan rehabilitated. 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.
In 1984, there were still some clinicians who believed child molesters could be cured. But other specialists had long since warned Catholic bishops of the high risk that priests who had abused children would become repeat offenders.
What’s more, specialists in child sexual abuse and attorneys who have represented victims said, it ought to have been apparent to the archdiocese by 1984 that someone with Geoghan’s record of habitual sexual abuse should not have been returned to a parish.
“In Geoghan’s case, the church defied its own most basic values of protecting the young and fostering celibacy,” said A.W. Richard Sipe, a former priest. Sipe, a psychotherapist and expert in clergy sexual abuse, said he has long believed that the Catholic Church has been too slow to deal with priests who molest children.
[Others don't want scandals with Geoghan any more - warning letter of bishop John M. D'Arcy to Cardinal Law of Dec. 14, 1984]
The Spotlight Team [group of journalists of Boston Globe] found evidence that one of Law’s top subordinates worried that Geoghan would cause further scandal at St. Julia’s in Weston, where he began work on Nov. 13, 1984. On Dec. 7 [1984], 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.”(Michael D'arcy is punished by criminal Church for his warning letter against cr.ped. Geoghan being shifted from Boston to Indiana [web11]).
Within the next week, two doctors cleared Geoghan for parish duty, according to an archdiocesan chronology that is in court files. It reads: “12/11/84 Dr. [Robert] Mullins - Father Geoghan `fully recovered.’ . . . 12/14/84 Dr. [John H.] Brennan: “no psychiatric contraindications or restrictions to his work as a parish priest.”
Address of the clinic in Brighton with Dr. Brennan [73][Protest letter against Geoghan to Cardinal Humberto Medeiros in 1982]
The files also contain a poignant - and prophetic - August 1982 letter to Law’s predecessor, the late Cardinal Humberto Medeiros, from the aunt of Geoghan’s seven Jamaica Plain victims, expressing incredulity that the church to which she was devoted would give Geoghan another chance at St. Brendan’s after what he had done to her family.
“Regardless of what he says, or the doctor who treated him, I do not believe he is cured; his actions strongly suggest that he is not, and there is no guarantee that persons with these obsessions are ever cured,” Margaret Gallant said in her plea to Medeiros.
“It embarrasses me that the church is so negligent,” Gallant wrote. Archdiocesan records obtained by the Globe make it clear why Gallant wrote her irate letter two years after the abuse: Geoghan had reappeared in Jamaica Plain, and been seen with a young boy. The records note that the next month, “Another letter from Mrs. Gallant. Why is nothing being done?”
[The tactics of the criminal pedophile priest Geoghan]
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. His offers to help, often by taking the children for ice cream or praying with them at bedtime, were accepted without suspicion.
[Victimas de Geoghan: McSorley]
That is how 12-year-old Patrick McSorley, who lived in a Hyde Park [Boston] housing project, allegedly became a Geoghan victim in 1986 - two years after Geoghan’s assignment to Weston.
[There are many Hyde Parks in the world].
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. The priest offered to buy Patrick ice cream.
“I felt a little funny about it,” McSorley recalled in an interview. “I was 12 years old and he was an old man.”
Riding home after getting ice cream, McSorley says, Geoghan consoled him. But then he patted his upper leg and slid his hand up toward his crotch. “I froze up,” McSorley said. “I didn’t know what to think. Then he put his hand on my genitals and started masturbating me. I was petrified.” McSorely added that Geoghan then began masturbating himself.
When Geoghan dropped a shaken McSorley off at his mother’s house, he suggested they keep secret what had taken place. “He said, `We’re very good at keeping secrets,’ “ McSorley said.
For years, McSorley has battled alcoholism and depression. And now, as the plaintiff in one of the lawsuits against Geoghan, McSorley is bitter. “To find out later that the Catholic Church knew he was a child molester - every day it bothers me more and more,” McSorley says.
Many documents yet to be unsealed
The letters from Bishop D’Arcy and Margaret Gallant were among documents found by the Globe during a review of the public files of 84 civil lawsuits still pending against Geoghan. But for all Geoghan’s notoriety, the public record is remarkably skeletal. That is because almost all the evidence in the lawsuits about the church’s supervision of Geoghan has been under a court-ordered confidentiality seal granted to church lawyers.
[Documents about criminals in the Church: no manipulation of justice possible any more]
In November, acting on a motion by the Globe, Superior Court Judge Constance M. Sweeney ordered those documents made public. The archdiocese appealed to the state Appeals Court, arguing that the Globe - and the public - should not have access to documents about the church’s inner workings. But the appeal was denied last month. The records, including depositions of bishops and personnel files, are scheduled to become public on Jan. 26, [2002].
[Confidants of cr.ped. Geoghan: cardinal Law and 5 bishops]
The cardinal and five other bishops who supervised Geoghan over the years have been accused of negligence in many of the civil suits for allegedly knowing of Geoghan’s abuse and doing nothing to stop it. Never before have so many bishops had to defend their roles in a case involving sexual molestation charges against a single priest. The five, all since promoted to head their own dioceses, are Bishops Thomas V. Daily of Brooklyn, N.Y.; Robert J. Banks of Green Bay, Wis.; William F. Murphy of Rockville Center, N.Y.; John B. McCormack of Manchester, N.H., and Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes of New Orleans. Law and the five bishops have all denied the accusations in legal filings. No American diocese has faced a scandal of similar dimensions since 1992.
[Also cr.ped. priest James Porter was "shifted" from one parish to the next - also unter cardinal Medeiros]
That year, in the Fall River Diocese, more than 100 of former priest James Porter’s victims surfaced publicly with evidence that Porter’s superiors - including, in the 1960s, then Monsignor Medeiros - shifted him from one parish to another as parents learned of his compulsive abuse.
[1997-2002: Criminal Cath. Church distributing 10 million dollars bribe for Geoghan cases so victims will keep quiet]Since 1997, the archdiocese has settled about 50 lawsuits against Geoghan, for more than $10 million - but with no confidential documents ever made public.
Plaintiffs in the 84 pending lawsuits are refusing to settle their claims as easily, and the church’s internal documents are subject to being revealed in the litigation. So the archdiocese has moved aggressively to keep information about its supervision of Geoghan out of public view. One example: When Law was named a defendant in 25 of the lawsuits, Rogers (Wilson D. Rogers Jr., lawyer of cardinal Law) asked a judge to impound any reference to the cardinal, arguing that his reputation might be harmed. The judge refused.
[Threats against Boston Globe]
On Dec. 17, [the lawyer of cardinal Law] Rogers sent the Globe’s attorney, Jonathan M. Albano, a letter threatening to seek legal sanctions against the newspaper and its law firm if the Globe published anything gleaned from confidential records in the suits. He warned that he would seek court-imposed sanctions even if Globe reporters asked questions of clergy involved in the case.
[The mechanism of child abuse in mentally ill criminal pedophie Catholic Church: priests order to say nothing - victims don't tell anything - or parents don't tell anything - or the Church orders: don't tell anything]For decades, within the US Catholic Church, sexual misbehavior by priests was shrouded in secrecy - at every level. Abusive priests - Geoghan among them - often instructed traumatized youngsters to say nothing about what had been done to them. Parents who learned of the abuse, often wracked by shame, guilt, and denial, tried to forget what the church had done. The few who complained were invariably urged to keep silent. And pastors and bishops, meanwhile, viewed the abuse as a sin for which priests could repent rather than as a compulsion they might be unable to control.
Even Massachusetts law assured secrecy - and still does. 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. It was only after last summer’s 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. But that has changed, as predicted in a 1985 confidential report on priest abuse prepared at the urging of some of the nation’s top bishops, Law among them. “Our dependence in the past on Roman Catholic judges and attorneys protecting the Diocese and clerics is GONE,” the report said.
[Complete arrogance of the archdiocese protecting criminal pedopile priests: rejecting any interview - woman speaker Morrissey]Since mid-December, the Globe has been requesting interviews with Law and other Church officials. But the answer was delayed until Morrissey’s [Donna Morrissey, a speaker of cardinal Law] call late Friday, in which she said she would not even accept questions in writing. Asked if that meant the Archdiocese had no interest in knowing what the questions were, Morrissey replied: “That’s correct.”
In preparing this article, the Globe also sought interviews with many of the priests and bishops who had supervised Geoghan or worked with him. None of the bishops would comment. Of the priests, few would speak publicly. And one pastor hung up the phone and another slammed a door shut at the first mention of Geoghan’s name.
After ordination, a record of abuse
There is no dispute that Geoghan abused children while he was at Blessed Sacrament in Saugus after his 1962 ordination. The archdiocese has recently settled claims on accusations that he did, and the church records obtained by the Globe note that Geoghan in 1995 admitted molesting four boys from the same family then. The unresolved issue in the remaining suits is whether church officials knew of the abuse at the time.
[A former priest Benzevich: Geoghan brought boys to his pastor's house to his sleeping room - threats of the Church's leadership against Benzevich]A former priest, Anthony Benzevich, has said he alerted church higher-ups that Geoghan frequently took young boys to his rectory bedroom. In news reports after accusations against Geoghan surfaced publicly, Benzevich was also quoted as saying church officials threatened to reassign him as a missionary in South America for telling them about Geoghan. 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.
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. Then, under oath, Benzevich changed his story. He said he was not certain that Geoghan had had boys in his room. And he said he could not recall notifying superiors about Geoghan’s behavior with children.
[Benzevich: Geoghan wrestling with boys, putting them in a priest's dress]
In a recent interview with the Globe, Benzevich said he does indeed remember Geoghan taking boys to his room. He said Geoghan often sought to wrestle with young boys - and liked to dress them in priest’s attire. But he repeated his sworn assertion that he does not recall notifying his superiors.
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. His earlier statements to reporters, Benzevich said, had been misconstrued.
[Victim attorney Mitchell] Garabedian, citing the confidentiality order, refused to discuss the Benzevich issue with the Globe.
[Catholic Church will pay without end for it's negligence]
The church’s financial liability in the pending suits could increase dramatically if there is evidence Geoghan’s superiors knew of his abuse.
[Geoghan in Concord - finish after 7 months]
Geoghan’s second assignment - in 1966 to St. Bernard’s in Concord - ended after seven months, according to a detailed chronology of Geoghan’s service prepared by the church which does not explain why the assignment was so abbreviated.
[Victim Mr. Anthony Muzzi Jr. - from Hingham]
The pending lawsuits include accusations that Geoghan again abused young boys from several families in his next parish, St. Paul’s in Hingham, between 1967 and 1974. One of his alleged victims, Anthony Muzzi Jr., said in an interview last week that in addition to his own abuse, his uncle caught Geoghan abusing his son. The uncle ordered Geoghan to leave his house, and complained to the priest’s superiors at St. Paul’s.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 Seton’s staff at the time. Sipe did not treat Geoghan.
[Victims in the family of Joanne Mueller: 4 boys with Geoghan]During his assignment in Hingham, Geoghan found victims far afield, befriending Joanne Mueller, a single mother of four boys who lived in Melrose. There too, according to depositions, the priest became a regular visitor, a spiritual counselor to Mueller and a helpmate to her boys, who were between 5 and 12.
One night, she testified, her second youngest son came to her, insisting that she keep Geoghan away from him. “I don’t want him doing that to my wee-wee, touching my wee-wee . . .” Mueller recalled the boy saying.
[Strategies: ice cream, bathing, bedtime stories, confessional]
Mueller, according to her deposition, summoned her three other sons and learned that Geoghan, while purporting to be taking them out for ice cream, helping them with their baths, and reading them bedtime stories, had been raping them orally and anally. Also, Mueller said, Geoghan was insisting they tell no one. “We couldn’t tell you because Father said it was a confessional,” she said one of her sons told her.
Mueller testified that she immediately took the boys to see Rev. Paul E. Miceli, a parish priest at St. Mary’s in Melrose who knew both Geoghan and her family.
She testified that Miceli assured her that Geoghan would be handled by appropriate church authorities and would “never be a priest again.” Mueller also said that Miceli asked her to keep the matter to herself: “Bad as it was, he said, `Just try - don’t think about it. It will never happen again.’ “
[Lies of pastor Miceli]Miceli, until recently a member of Law’s cabinet, contradicted Mueller in his own deposition. He said he did not recall her name, and never received a visit of the sort she described. But Miceli acknowledged receiving a call from a woman saying Geoghan was spending too much time with her children.
Miceli testified that the caller said nothing about sexual abuse. Nonetheless, Miceli said he drove to Geoghan’s new parish in Jamaica Plain to relay the woman’s concerns to Geoghan face-to-face.
Family in need was vulnerable
[Geoghan with child abuse in the family of Maryetta Dussourd]
If Mueller had unwittingly facilitated Geoghan’s access to the children in her home in Melrose, the same role was played by Maryetta Dussourd at the priest’s next stop: St. Andrew’s, in the Forest Hills section of Jamaica Plain, where he served from 1974 to 1980.Dussourd was rearing her own four children - three boys and a girl - as well as her niece’s four boys. In her hardscrabble neighborhood, she said in an interview, she hoped there was a priest the children could look up to. Then she met Geoghan, who oversaw altar boys and Boy Scouts at the parish.
Geoghan, she recalled bitterly, was eager to help. Before long, he was visiting her apartment almost every evening - for nearly two years. He routinely took the seven boys out for ice cream and put them to sleep at night.
But all that time, Geoghan regularly molested the seven boys in their bedrooms, Dussourd said. In some cases, he performed oral sex on them, according to court documents. Other times, he fondled their genitals or forced them to fondle his - occasionally as he prayed.
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 `would touch them while they were sleeping and waken them by playing with their penises.’ “
Dussourd discovered what was happening after the children finally told her sister, Margaret Gallant. Horrified, Dussourd complained to the Rev. John E. Thomas, the pastor of St. Thomas Aquinas, a nearby parish, according to court documents and accounts by Dussourd and a church official who asked that he not be identified.
[Pastor John E. Thomas receives the admition by Geoghan]Thomas confronted Geoghan with the allegations, and was taken aback when Geoghan casually admitted they were accurate. “He said, `Yes, that’s all true,’ “ the official recalled. It was as if Geoghan had been asked “if he preferred chocolate or vanilla ice cream.”
[Pastor John E. Thomas reports the abuse of Geoghan to the Brighton archdiocese in Brighton - Mr. Daily instructs Geoghan to "go home"]Thomas immediately drove to archdiocesan offices in Brighton to notify Daily. In Thomas’s presence that Saturday afternoon, Feb. 9, 1980, Daily telephoned Geoghan at St. Andrew’s and, in a brief conversation, delivered a curt directive: “Go home,” the official said.
Geoghan protested, saying there was no one else to celebrate the 4 p.m. Mass. “I’ll say the Mass myself,” Daily insisted. “Go home.” The official said Daily drove to Jamaica Plain and said Mass.
[Pastor Delaney, the pastor of Geoghan: all is kept in the dark]
The Rev. Francis H. Delaney, who was Geoghan’s pastor at St. Andrew’s, said in an interview that church officials never told him why Geoghan disappeared from the parish.
[Pastor Thomas wants to keep all secret]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.”
Thomas, echoing a tack common among clerics at the time, later pleaded with Dussourd not to follow through on her threat to go public, she said. He cited the years Geoghan had spent studying for the priesthood, and the consequences for Geoghan if the accusations against him were publicized. “Do you realize what you’re taking from him?” Thomas asked, according to Dussourd.
Thomas, who is now retired, declined to be interviewed.
A 1994 archdiocesan document summarizing Geoghan’s recurrent problems says of the seven children: “Fr. Geoghan `admits the activity but does not feel it serious or a pastoral problem.’ “
[Geoghan's fifth parish St. Brendan's - more child abuse]Geoghan spent the following year on sick leave, under treatment for his compulsion, but living with family in West Roxbury. In February 1981, he was sent to his fifth parish, St. Brendan’s.
Almost immediately, Geoghan was working with First Communicants, befriending young children and their parents, even taking some boys to his family’s summer home in Scituate, where - parents say they later discovered - he sexually abused the youths.
Geoghan’s free rein was made possible because the archdiocese said nothing to Lane, St. Brendan’s pastor, about Geoghan’s history, according to a teacher in the parish whom Lane has confided in.
The St. Brendan’s teacher, who declined to be named, said that at first, Geoghan’s willingness to spend inordinate amounts of time with children was admired. But over time, some parishioners became suspicious. “We knew something wasn’t right,” the teacher said. “He just zeroed in on some kids.”
After two more years and more allegations of sexual abuse, Geoghan’s tenure at St. Brendan’s came to an abrupt end in 1984, when [pastor] Lane heard complaints that Geoghan had molested children in the parish.
Lane, the teacher said, was so devastated that he broke down when he told her the news. And, she said, he was incensed that he had not been warned. “Father Lane was almost destroyed by this,” the teacher said.
Lane is now retired. When a Globe reporter went to see him recently, he slammed the door shut as soon as Geoghan’s name was mentioned.
Law denies he tried ‘to shift a problem’
[Cardinal Law and his defense]
In his own defense last summer [2000], Law wrote in the Pilot, the archdiocesan newspaper, “Never was there an effort on my part to shift a problem from one place to the next.”The cardinal’s assertion followed his disclosure, in court documents, that he was informed in September 1984 of the four-year-old allegations that Geoghan had molested the seven Jamaica Plain boys. In the court filing, Law went on to say he then notified Geoghan that he was being removed from St. Brendan’s and was “in between assignments.”
The legal response by the cardinal, narrowly drawn in response to the lawsuit against him, omits any reference to Geoghan’s molestation of children at St. Brendan’s in Dorchester.
[Geoghan in St. Julia with altar boys, with religious education and with a youth group - protest by bishop D'Arcy]
Despite his record, Geoghan was assigned to St. Julia’s. And in his first two years, he was in charge of altar boys, religious education for public school youngsters and a youth group, according to the church’s annual directories.
Three weeks after Geoghan arrived in Weston, Bishop D’Arcy protested the assignment to Law, citing Geoghan’s problems and adding: “I understand his recent abrupt departure from St. Brendan’s, Dorchester may be related to this problem.”
[Cath. Priests with problems - one goes - another comes: Driscoll goes with alcohol problems - Geoghan comes with sex problems]
A copy of the letter contains a redacted paragraph, an apparent reference to the Rev. Nicholas Driscoll, who confirmed last week that he had been removed from St. Julia’s before Geoghan’s arrival - but for alcohol and depression problems, not sexual abuse. So D’Arcy expressed concern about “further scandal in this parish.” If “something happens,” parishioners will feel that the archdiocese “simply sends them priests with problems.”D’Arcy 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.
[Geoghan's Pastor in St. Julia knew about Geoghan]
Retired Monsignor Francis S. Rossiter, Geoghan’s pastor at St. Julia’s, refused to be interviewed last week. But Church records note that Rossiter was aware of Geoghan’s history.The civil and criminal allegations Geoghan faces in Middlesex and Suffolk counties suggest that he allegedly abused at least 30 more boys after Law sent him to Weston in 1984 - both before and after the half year’s sick leave in 1989.
After Geoghan’s 1989 return to St. Julia’s, it was another 38 months before Law took him out of the parish. Three years later, Geoghan was still seeking out victims, allegedly including an altar boy donning vestments for a christening ceremony, according to the criminal charges.
[The carnivore animal Geoghan was given from one parish to another one]The shuttling of Geoghan from one parish to another created a devastating coincidence for one family. One boy he allegedly molested is the son of a man who had been among the many sexually abused by [priest James] 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.
MacLeish declined to provide any information about the family, and said a legal claim has yet to be filed over the son’s treatment by Geoghan.
MacLeish, who has had substantial dealings with the Boston Archdiocese, said he remains astonished at Rogers’s assertion that Geoghan’s assignments were deemed safe by doctors. “No responsible clinician would have said it was safe to transfer him to another parish in light of what the church knew about his pattern of deviant behavior,” MacLeish said.>
And then a serie of articles came:
Article of Boston Globe of Jan. 7, 2002:
Article of Boston Globe of Jan. 7, 2002: Geoghan preferred preying on poorer children [68]
Article of Boston Globe of Jan. 24, 2002:
Article of Boston Globe of Jan. 24, 2002: Documents show church long supported Geoghan [69]
And with the Newsweek article of March 4, 2002, the topic of criminal pedophile Catholic Church is nationwide a top topic in the "USA":
Article of Newsweek of March 4, 2002:
Criminal Catholic Church is transferring criminal pedophile priests from parish to parish instead to block them and forcing them to change their profession:
Newsweek top story "Sex, shame and the Catholic Church. 890 Priests accused of child abuse in Boston - and new soul-searching across America" - March 4, 2002 [52]
Newsweek March 4, 2002: Geoghan victims McSorley, Mark Keane, Muzzi - victims also in Maryland, NY, California, Iowa, Arizona, Illinois - strategies of cr.Cath. Church like Enron: keep quiet up to the doom - hush money with millions+prohibition of speaking - cr.ped. priests Gauthe+Porter etc.
Sins of the Father
https://www.newsweek.com/sins-father-141539
pdf version with photos: http://www.philsaviano.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Newsweek-2002-100dpi.pdf
Portrait of the cr. ped. priest Geoghan 1999 appr. [1] - cr. ped. priest Gilbert Gauthe, portrait [55] - cr. ped. priest James Porter, portrait [56] - Geoghan victim Mark Keane [18] - Geoghan victim Anthony Muzzi [27] - Geoghan victim Patrick McSorley, portrait, suicide due to overdose in 2004 [57]
The article:
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[Victim McSorley: eat an ice cream and then sexual abuse in the car - the order for keeping all secret]
Patrick McSorley, an intense and troubled 27-year-old, remembers vividly the beautiful July afternoon in 1986 that "totally changed my life." He was 12. He was out playing ball in his Boston neighborhood when he heard his mother call for him out the window of their apartment. When he went inside, she introduced him to the Rev. John J. Geoghan, a priest and an old family friend who had just learned of McSorley's father's suicide, some years earlier. The priest offered to take him out for ice cream. Driving slowly home from Brigham's, [then stopped the car and] Father Geoghan patted the youngster's leg. "I'm sorry to hear about your father's death," he said consolingly. "For a young boy like you, that's an awful loss." By the time he uttered that last word, the priest's hands were inside the child's shorts, McSorley says. Terrified, the boy said nothing. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw the priest fondling himself, he says. He remembers staring out the windshield for a very long time, as ice cream melted down his elbow till nothing at all was left.McSorley--who says he began suffering anxiety attacks and depression shortly after Geoghan's visit--is suing Geoghan and his superior Cardinal Bernard Law. Sitting last week in a Boston lawyer's drab office, McSorley remembered what he says were Geoghan's last words to him: "We keep secrets. We're good at keeping secrets. Would you like me to make a return visit?"
[Cardinal Law comes with "forgiveness" - he cannot handle the truth - Geoghan sentenced end of february 2002]
On the first Sunday of Lent, the season of repentance, Cardinal Law, the senior member of the U.S. Roman Catholic hierarchy, celebrated mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston and in his homily gave what seemed like his umpteenth apology for the scandal surrounding Geoghan (pronounced Gai-gan). "We do not always make holy decisions," he said, "and we turn to God for the forgiveness he is always ready to give."At 70, Cardinal Law is in the midst of a massive, tragic, expensive and potentially career-ending controversy, and he looks it. When he shakes hands after the service, his grip is firm, his blue eyes piercing, but his face looks exhausted and scared. The crisis has been brewing for decades--long before Law arrived in Boston--but the floodgates opened on Jan. 6, when The Boston Globe published a page-one story alleging that the Archdiocese of Boston moved Geoghan, whom it knew to be a child molester, from parish to parish over 30 years. (Geoghan, 66, was sentenced last week to nine to 10 years in prison after being convicted of indecent assault on a 10-year-old boy, but lawyers say he may have had as many as 130 victims.) The cardinal, who had previously defended the archdiocese's handling of the case, recanted and apologized.
[Secret hush money: 10 million dollars for 50 cases - 60 to 70 cr.ped. priests on Law's list - 86 civil lawsuits pendent against Geoghan - Law has failed completely]
The Globe also reported that the archdiocese had quietly paid $10 million to settle some 50 cases against Geoghan. Again, the cardinal apologized and, according to people familiar with the situation, turned over to state authorities the names of between 60 and 70 priests who had been accused of abusing children over the past 40 years--reversing his own longstanding policy of handling such allegations quietly, within the church. Other Catholic leaders in Boston handed over about a dozen more, according to sources. The total number may top 80. The archdiocese won't talk specifically about lawsuits, but 86 civil suits are known to be still pending against Geoghan, and at least six claims have been brought against other priests in the archdiocese. Many of these also name the cardinal himself for failing to protect the children in his care. Law declined to be interviewed for this article.
[Population wants cardinal Law to resign - ex-priest Eugene Kennedy: Church is acting like Enron: ignore problems until the whole thing is drowning]
Nothing like this has ever happened before in Boston, one of the country's most influential Catholic communities. Many priests are infuriated with Law's handling of the case; a few are said to be so humiliated that they've stopped wearing their collars in public. Half of Boston's Catholics, according to one poll, would like the cardinal to resign--a course that he rejected in a passionate homily at the Boston cathedral recently. "Our faith doesn't rest on the shifting winds of popular opinion," he declared. But the opinion of Rome matters, and Law's fate has almost certainly been the subject of anxious whispers along the marble corridors of the Satanist Vatican. Knowledgeable observers think it unlikely that Law, an influential member of the Satanist Vatican's Congregation for Bishops, will be forced to resign. But scandals that involve an alleged cover-up have a way of mushrooming out of control, and the Geoghan case is already evoking comparisons not just to Watergate but a more contemporary debacle. "The church reacted as institutions often do--as Enron did--and that is to deny, to delay, to dissemble, to fool themselves into thinking that all was well," says Eugene Kennedy, a former priest and author of "The Unhealed Wound: The Church and Human Sexuality."
[Catholic epidemia: The list of the cr.ped. priests goes to the juridical authorities - abuse in Philadelphia, Arizona, Maryland, New York, California, Iowa, Illinois, etc.]
The soul-searching goes well beyond Boston, to an American Catholic hierarchy suddenly facing the same kind of recriminations over long-buried episodes of sexual abuse that in recent years have shaken other American institutions--including schools, sports teams, Boy Scouts and, most commonly, families. Following Law's lead, bishops in Manchester, N.H., and Portland, Maine, have agreed to turn over the names of alleged offenders to the authorities. On Friday the Archdiocese of Philadelphia said it had found "credible evidence" that 35 priests sexually abused children over five decades and that it had relieved several of them of their duties. Last week the Arizona Daily Star called for the resignation of Bishop Manuel D. Moreno of Tucson [capital of Arizona], after the disclosure that church officials had quietly paid millions of dollars in restitution to nine former altar boys. Plaintiffs' attorneys say they're receiving calls daily from victims in Maryland, New York, California, Iowa, Arizona and Illinois. To some civil libertarians, the avalanche of allegations calls to mind the day-care witch hunts of the 1980s. "We're in an atmosphere now where there's a substantial chance of accusations against, even conviction of, an innocent priest," says Harvey Silverglate, a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. "The problem with witch hunts is that everybody accused is suddenly found guilty."
[The mechanism: Cath. Church with sex prohibitions has criminal pedofilia as a system]
How many other Father Geoghans are still serving in parishes, instructing altar boys and making pastoral visits to families? That's a question for which statistics simply don't exist. "We don't really know that much about the sexuality of priests, period," says Dr. John Bradford, head of the Sexual Behaviors Clinic at the Royal Ottawa Hospital. The cases the church is grappling with now involve two phenomena that are psychologically distinct but often are lumped together for legal and moral consideration: pedophilia, defined as intense and recurrent sexual desire for prepubescent children; and sexual advances on sexually mature, but underage, boys and girls. The latter, troubling as it is, is part of the human condition; priests have always been in a struggle to keep their vows. Pedophilia, which researchers admit they know little about, is believed to afflict 5 to 6 percent of all men (and hardly any women). Of these, most never act on these impulses. After a sex scandal in the early 1990s, the Chicago archdiocese opened up records for all 2,252 priests who served there over a period of 40 years. Only one of the priests had allegedly assaulted a preteen. The most common complaints involved boys who were 15 or 16.
[Strategy: Pedophiles become a priest by their intention for getting access to children, or they mean being a priest would heal them]
But some researchers think the priesthood may hold a dangerous attraction for pedophiles--not because of the opportunities it presents to indulge their fantasies, but for the opposite reason, that they hope it can help control them. "A very small percentage of pedophiles may go into the priesthood thinking that celibacy will solve the problem they're dealing with," says Dr. Frederick Berlin, a psychiatrist at Johns Hopkins who deals with sexual disorders.[Or: "unmature" men enjoy the structures of the Church doing what they want - Geoghan was described as "unmature" in the seminary by the rector]
Kennedy, the former priest, has another theory: the church offers a comforting home to young men who are psychologically and sexually immature. Priests "gravitate toward male children because they're male children themselves," he says. "These men were promoted in the seminary because they were good boys... There was an inevitability for their erotic targets to become children." Geoghan fits that profile exactly. When he was a young seminarian in Boston, the rector wrote that despite a "very fervent spiritual life," the 18-year-old Geoghan had a "very pronounced immaturity."
[Feb. 20, 2002: Jewish cantor imprisoned because of child abuse of 3 years old nephew]
Of course, priests have no monopoly on child abuse; by coincidence, just a day [Feb.20, 2002] before Geoghan's sentencing [Feb.21, 2002], police in New York arrested the cantor of the country's most prominent Reform synagogue, Temple Emanu-El, charging him with abusing his own 3-year-old nephew. He maintains his innocence.
[Victim Keane: rape by Geoghan in a changing rooom in a youth club]
[Victim Muzzi 1960s: Geoghan with blessing children in their beds fondling their genitals]
But clergymen have unique access to young people. Anthony Muzzi Jr., a 47-year-old construction worker with a broad South Boston accent, remembers Geoghan as the beloved family priest and a frequent guest for dinner at his home. He was among Geoghan's first victims, beginning in the 1960s, when Muzzi was "13 or 14," he says. "He would make friends like you can't believe. People loved this guy," Muzzi recalls. At night, he says, Geoghan would bless the children in their beds, sometimes whispering strange things as he fondled them. "He made it from me to my brother to my cousin next door to another cousin," Muzzi charges. None of the boys said a word. "Knowing what I know now, you feel embarrassed and stupid," he says. "How did I let this happen? I wouldn't let a bus driver do this to me, so how did I let this priest do it?"
And to be attacked by a priest is a double betrayal; the victims harbor the outrage and shattered innocence of a child abused by a parent. Mark Keane, 32, says he was raped by Geoghan when he was 14 in the changing room of a Boston-area boys-and-girls club. He didn't know the identity of his attacker, who was naked. But several weeks later he saw the man again, this time in priest's robes. That's when he cried. "It really is a rape of your soul," he says. "It is not just physical abuse, it's a betrayal of your faith. It's the most damaging thing imaginable. I can't have faith now, and if I wanted to, I have no place to turn."
[Church documents on court - rage against criminal Cath. Church is rising against blind gay Satanist Vatican autorities]
The anger among Boston's 2 million Catholics was stoked by the reams of documentation unsealed by the courts--after journalists fought to see it. To a woman who said her nephew was molested by Geoghan, Law wrote in September 1984: "The matter of your concern is being investigated and appropriate pastoral decisions will be made." But to Geoghan, he wrote in 1989: "I am confident that you will again render fine priestly service to the people of God in Saint Julia Parish." To Geoghan again, in 1996, after approving his retirement status: "Yours has been an effective life of ministry, sadly impaired by illness... God bless you, Jack." These polite missives seem to confirm people's worst fears: that the see-no-evil culture of the church is so entrenched, and the unwillingness of some priests to look honestly at themselves and their colleagues is so pervasive, that even the most compassionate people can fail to protect those they've vowed to serve.
[Crim Cath. Church is only praying instead of taking measures - threatening letters to honest priests who are reporting cr. people - prohibition of speaking]
Is the failure of the church to confront the problem of sex abuse bred in its bones--an inclination to see neglect or violence as "sin" instead of "crime" and therefore respond with prayer instead of punishment? Perhaps.
But secrecy and silence have always characterized the Catholic Church, and in many of these cases the church does all it can to prevent the charges from coming to light--sometimes to the point of writing threatening letters to outspoken priests, or advocating that incriminating documents be shipped out of U.S. jurisdiction. The vast majority of these cases are settled outside court, and most settlements come with gag orders [prohibition of speaking]. In court cases, the church often moves to seal all the files--even though in cases against secular child molesters, usually only the victim's name and identity are concealed. A spokesman for the Archdiocese of Boston says victims' families often preferred discretion because "they were loyal Catholics, and because they loved the church."
[Tesis of Berry: Criminal Cath. Church wants only polish it's reputation]
But Jason Berry, author of "Lead Us Not Into Temptation," and an authority on priests and sexual abuse, has another theory, rooted in the bureaucratic self-interest of the hierarchy. "By [Satanist] Vatican lights," he says, "the worst thing a bishop can do is become publicly associated with a scandal."[1980: Cardenal Madeiros not stopping Geoghan - 1984: priest Gauthe busted in Louisiana - Law not stopping Geoghan]
Cardinal Bernard Law arrived in Boston in 1984, an ambitious bishop fresh from a post in Washington. Geoghan had already been allegedly molesting children in the diocese for years. Court documents show that Cardinal Humberto Madeiros, Law's predecessor, ordered counseling for Geoghan in 1980, but shortly afterward named him associate pastor of St. Brendan's, in Dorchester, where he allegedly continued preying on young men. In 1984, the story of Father Gilbert Gauthe, a child-abusing priest in Louisiana, exploded into the national press. The same year Cardinal Law moved Geoghan from St. Brendan's to St. Julia's.
[1986: Bishop Conference about sexual abuse of minors - Doyle with prophecy of 1 billion Dollars costs of hush money - hush money 1980-2002: 250 to 800 million $ - Geoghan abusing McSorley - organized crime]
Two years later, in response to the Gauthe debacle, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, a loosely organized group that recommends policy for the American church, held a conference on the sex abuse of minors. Father Thomas Doyle, then a canon lawyer in Washington, had been investigating the problem [presenting his report to the conference]. What he concluded was staggering: at the present rate, he estimated, child-sexual-abuse settlements would cost the church $1 billion over the following 10 years. The Linkup, a Chicago-based organization for victims of clerical sexual abuse, claims the church has, in fact, paid out at least $800 million since the 1980s [until March 2002]--a figure hotly disputed by Mark Chopko, general counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, who puts the real number at "somewhere closer to $250 [million] to $300 million... it's still a whole lot of money," he adds. "We advised, urged, banged our heads against the wall," recalls Doyle, now an Air Force chaplain based in Germany. "We advised that the public be dealt with honestly and openly. The bishops conference rejected the whole report [of Doyle] and everything that was in it." Months later Patrick McSorley went for ice cream with Father Geoghan.
[1993: cr.ped. priest James Porter busted - 18-20 years of prison - Cardinal Law installing formal policy]
In 1993, another molesting priest made national headlines--this time a lot closer to home [closer to Boston]. "Father" James Porter was convicted of sexually abusing 28 children in the Diocese of Fall River, just 50 miles from Boston, and was sentenced to 18 to 20 years in prison. This time Law jumped into action. He put together a panel of experts to establish a formal policy, and invited all the parish priests for their input. He published the policy, which was basically procedural guidelines, and gave a copy to each priest. Allegations were still handled in- house; nowhere did the policy advise turning abusers over to civil authorities. The local press's obsession with the Porter case sent the cardinal around the bend, and he went after the Globe with a holy wrath. "By all means, we call down God's power on the media, particularly the Globe," he said.
[1995: Geoghan is a vagabond between reha homes and retirement homes - 10 million dollars of hush money - Cardinal Law in Rome wants to get rid of Geoghan]
By 1995, a treatment center had advised that Geoghan "should have no interpersonal contact with male minors that is unsupervised." For the next several years, barred from parish work, he moved among rehabilitation centers and retirement homes as the charges mounted against him. And he kept racking up victims, charges Mitchell Garabedian, who represents 118 people suing Geoghan, including McSorley. Finally, around the time the diocese paid $10 million to Geoghan's accusers, Law took extraordinary action. He flew to Rome and asked that the priest be relieved of his collar. Defrocking is usually a long judicial process, with room for appeal, but Law made sure in this case it was irrevocable. He told the press in the summer of 1998 that "as long as I am archbishop, I will be haunted by those persons who have been victimized."
[2001: unsealing documents against Geoghan AND against Law]Early last year [January 2001], as criminal cases against Geoghan moved through the courts, reporters in Boston began sniffing around the story in earnest, publishing reports that the cardinal knew of Geoghan's behavior. In the diocesan newspaper ["Pilot"] last summer [July 2001 appr.], the cardinal denied it: "Never was there an effort on my part to shift a problem from one place to the next," he wrote. In the fall [of 2001] the Globe filed a motion to unseal the documents in the case and the archdiocese appealed. The Globe prevailed, and the apologizing began.
[Cardinal Law believed in a healing of Geoghan]
Law's own culpability lies in what "knew" means. He has said publicly that although he was aware of Geoghan's behavior, he genuinely believed in those days that such a priest could be helped with therapy and rehabilitation. His belief was reinforced by the doctors assigned to examine Geoghan--although they were not experts in the field, critics say. The cardinal's allies support this view. "He made his decision in a place and at a time when he thought it was the very best thing to do," says "Father" Patrick Farrell, pastor at St. Peter's Cathedral in Jackson, Miss., and one of the cardinal's oldest friends. "I could never imagine that man doing anything other than have the deepest interest of the child at heart." Donna Morrissey, spokesperson for the Boston archdiocese, agrees, characterizing the cardinal as "generous" and "kind."
[Where does the money for millions of hush money come from? - Claim of an "insurance" - hush money=organized crime (!!!)]
Disaffected Catholics usually are reluctant to air their grievances in public, but this case [with Geoghan] is different because parishioners can vote their unhappiness with their pocketbooks. Law's advisers say pending claims may run to more than $30 million, but plaintiffs' lawyers put the number much higher. The archdiocese made the extraordinary announcement that payments to sex-abuse victims would not come out of the collection plate or previously existing diocesan fund-raising drives. So where will they come from? The church says it has insurance, but sources say coverage has been spotty over the past several decades and the archdiocese is in litigation with one of its former insurers and is in disputes with several others. Former Clinton appointee Mary Jo Bane, a longtime member of St. William's Parish in Dorchester, is circulating a petition urging local Catholics to withhold contributions to the archdiocese until the church gives a full accounting of its financial plan. So far 175 people have signed. Concerned that his contributions to archdiocesan funds might end up in plaintiffs' attorneys' pockets, one prominent local businessman said he had decided to direct all his current and projected donations, about $20,000 in 2002, to his local parish.
[Cardinal Law is searching money for hush money settlements - selling lots etc.]
Still, Law has hardly run out of resources. On Valentine's Day, he held a meeting of his finance committee, a blue-chip group that includes famed money manager Peter Lynch. He asked for their help raising money to pay for the litigation--and went over a list of assets that could be liquidated or mortgaged, including a choice multiacre plot behind the cardinal's fortresslike residence in Brighton. "He's not going to walk away from this problem," says Robert Popeo, the high-powered Boston litigator who was called in as a pro bono consultant to the archdiocese, and may represent Law in cases where he's named as a defendant. "He regards this as his problem to solve."
[Bishops want to "reinstall the belief" - parents of families reject the priests]
Elsewhere across the country, the church also seems to be starting to learn its lesson. Last week the bishop of Manchester [in Massachusets] called a meeting of the diocese's priests to discuss restoring parishioners' faith in the wake of sexual scandals there and in Boston. And the Catholic bishops issued a public apology: "on behalf of all of the bishops, [we express] our profound sorrow that some of our priests were responsible for this abuse under our watch. We understand that your children are your most precious gift. They are our children as well, and we continue to apologize to the victims and to their parents and their loved ones for this failure in our pastoral responsibilities." To his constituency, the bishop of Tucson [Arizona - maybe it was bishop John Michael D'Arcy in Arizona which after his protest letter of 1984 against Geoghan was punished by Cardinal Law being transferred to Arizona] issued an extraordinary statement admitting to "failings in the past" and acknowledging that parishioners have "suffered greatly." Catholic leaders worry that recent events may damage their future ability to recruit priests. "A scandal like this makes parents very weary of promoting their sons into the priesthood," says Sister Mary Ann Walsh, spokesperson for the Catholic Bishops Conference.
In Boston, Law's belated efforts to deal with the problem have impressed at least some of his associates, such as John McNeice, a major Catholic donor who was at the cardinal's Valentine's Day crisis meeting. "I believe in the church," he says. "We're going through a difficult period, but the church has gone through them before, and we'll face them again." Unfortunately, it is all coming too late for McSorley, who saw Geoghan again last week at the priest's appearance in a Boston courtroom. At the sight of the now elderly, slightly befuddled-looking ex-priest, McSorley broke into a sweat, and within minutes had fled outside. While the church hierarchy deals with the public-relations and financial implications of decades of neglect, McSorley has to put together the rest of his life.
CORRECTION
In our March 4 cover story [2002], we said that Cardinal Law's 1984 arrival in Boston immediately followed a posting as bishop in Washington, D.C. In fact, Law had most recently been posted in the Springfield-Cape Girardeau, Mo [Montana]., diocese.>
Aug.16, 1982: protest letter of Margaret Gallant to Cardinal Medeiros: Geoghan has molested 7 boys - she will not keep quiet
Clear details are missing, which abuse where when how
http://archive.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/documents/geoghan_0882_typed.htm
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/ma-boston/archives/PatternAndPractice/0325-1982-08-16-To-Medeiros.pdf
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August 16, 1982
Mrs. Margaret Gallant complains after a conference with bishop Daly that no measure was taken against cr.ped. priest Geoghan and that all children with him would be in danger.
[Measures are missing against priest Geoghan]
August 16, 1982Dear Eminence,
As you know, our family had a conference with Bishop Daly over two weeks ago. Since that priest [Geoghan] is still in his parish, it appears that no action has been taken. Am I to assume now that we were patronized?
Our family is deeply rooted in the Catholic Church, our great-grandparents and parents suffered hardship and persecution for love of the Church. Our desire is to protect the dignity of the Holy Orders, even in the midst of our tears and agony over the seven boys in our family who have been violated. We cannot undo that, but we are obligated to protect others from this abuse to the Mystical Body of Jesus Christ.
[Minors are protected by law - keep quiet would insult intelligence]
It was suggested that we keep silent to protect the boys -- that is absurd since minors are protected under law, and I do not wish to hear that remark again, since it is insulting to our intelligence.I have a tremendous love and respect for you Cardinal, and regret now for not writing to [p.1] humility and holiness, but I am very angry with you now, and do not understand this.
[There is no warning from Geoghan - parents don't know]
While it is true that a layman in the same situation would only be confined for observation for a limited time -- he would also be exposed (word "exposed" is underlined twice). Parents would know then not to allow children near this type person. In this case [with cr.ped. priest Geoghan], not only do they not know, but by virtue of his office he gains access quite easily, which compounds our responsibility! His actions are not only destructive to the emotional well-being of the children, but hits the very core of our being in our love for the church -- he would not gain access to homes of fallen away Catholics.[Protect the world from Geoghan - Geoghan has the wrong profession]
Regardless of what he says, or the doctor who treated him, I do not believe he is cured; his actions strongly suggest that he is not, and there is no guarantee that persons with these obsessions are ever cured.Truly, my heart aches for him and I pray for him, because I know this must tear him apart too; but I cannot allow my compassion for him to cloud my judgment on acting for the people of God, and the children in the church.
[Threat to present the Geoghan case to the Satanist pope]
My own children were not directly [p.2] sensitive to my nephews and grandnephews who were involved; I am far enough removed to be slightly more objective. I have not told my sister or my niece that that priest is still functioning -- I fear the consequences of telling them. I have told my brother, and he and I will take this case to the [Satanist] Holy Father if need be.
[The right of warning always exists]
We did not question the Authority of the Church two years ago, but left it entirely in your hands. Now, we will not settle for this, but must insist on knowing what action is taken -- where he is sent, etc. I will not allow this Temple of God to be overshadowed by a sin of omission. We, our family and all of us who look to the Authority of the Church -- (word illegible) the Church -- and have the right to expect service from the Ordained.My two sisters and my niece never as much as received an apology from the church, much less any offer for [p.3] counseling for the boys. It embarrasses me that the Church is so negligent.
[Priest Damien has beaten a child molester up]
Father Damien the leper went after a child molester once and beat him up. His cause was held up because of it. Now the curse of Damien is in the [Satanist] Vatican. I am praying to him now to bring this cause to Jesus Christ. Father Damien would not sit on his fanny -- he would act.My heart is broken over this whole mess -- and to address my Cardinal in this manner has taken its toll on me too. May Almighty God, Father, Son and Holy Spirit have mercy on all of us.
Margaret Gallant [p.4]
Aug. 20, 1982: Archbishop Medeiros assures measures against Geogham for child protection
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/ma-boston/archives/PatternAndPractice/0326-Plaintiffs-Exhibit-17.pdf
August 20, 1982
Dear Mrs. Gallant,
Thank you for your letter of August 10, 1982 and your candid expression of opinion concerning the priest of the Archdiocese of Boston who has caused hardship to your family and most especially to several of the boys.
While I am and must be very sensitive to a very delicate situation and one that has caused great scandal, I muast at the same time invoke the mercy of God and share in that mercy in the knowledge that God forgives sins and that sinners indeed can be forgiven. To be sure, we cannot accept sin, but we know well that we must love the sinner and pray for him. I take great comfort in noting these thoughts in your letter to me and at your compassion for Father. Please be assured that I am speaking to the priest in order to find the most Christian way to deal with the problem with him and at the same time remove any source of scandal for the sake of the faithful.
With every good wish, I am
Devotedly yours in Our Lord,
Humberto Cardinal Medeiros,
Archbishop of Boston
Geogham is going on "working". Here is the protest letter of Margaret Gallant of 1984 to cardinal Law:
Sep. 6, 1984: protest letter of Margaret Gallant to Cardinal Law: Geoghan has molested 7 boys - shame for the Church will be giant
from: http://archive.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/documents/geoghan_090684.htm
Sept. 6, 1984Dear Excellency,
It is with deep regret that I impart the following information.
There is a priest at St. Brendan’s in Dorchester who has been known in the past to molest boys.
The Cardinal [Medeiros] had sent Father for treatments and after returning to Parish duties, he maintained a low profile for quite a while. Lately, however, he has been seen in the company of many boys, to the extent of dropping them off at their homes as late as 9:30 p.m.
Our family is very deeply rooted in the Church with a firm love for Holy Orders. We do not accuse this priest of sin, since we are all sinners, but rather we speak here of crime.
Since 3 of my nephews and 4 grandnephews had dealings with the priest, I am certain of these facts. My heart is broken over the whole situation and it is a burden to my conscience since I am trying to keep a lid on the anger of family members; a very real fear of the disgrace this would bring to the church, to all good priests and families, and finally, but most importantly, my fellow members in this Body of Christ who are left in the dark as to the danger their children are in, while I have knowledge of the truth.
My heart also breaks, that my first offering to you is this cup of bitter wine with no taste of joy. And so, it is to you my dearly loved Archbishop, that I pass this burden with hope and trust.
Respectfully,
Marge Gallant
24.2.2004: Selbstmord von Geoghan-Opfer Patrick McSorley durch Drogenmissbrauch - fast 200.000 Dollar Schmerzensgeld - Behandlung scheitert wegen fehlender Krankenversicherung (!):
Angebliches Missbrauchsopfer des Kirchenpersonals tot aufgefunden
(original Englisch: Brian MacQuarrie: Vocal critic of abuse by clergy found dead)
http://archive.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories5/022404_mcsorley.htm
Patrick McSorley, portrait, one of the Geoghan victims, drug suicide in 2004 due to lack of health insurance [57]
Summary
The lawyer of Patrick McSorley (Mitchell Garabedian) said, on Feb.23, 2004 the abuse victim of cr.ped. priest John J. Geoghan was found dead in an apartment in North Boston. McSorley was in a friend's apartment, and a close friend discovered the 29-year-old McSorley dead when he wanted to visit him for drugs, there was a long-standing, chronic drug problem.
Police was called to report the death of McSorley at 1 am. A friendly person, Alexa MacPherson, 29, also a victim of sexual abuse by church officials, said that McSorley was trying to numb his soul pain and memory by alcohol and drug abuse. Drug clinics and hospital visits have not helped against drug abuse, and even drug abuse has done nothing to clear the memory. The abuse by Geoghan was like this: he had visited the family of McSorley after the suicide of McSorley's father and then abused 12-year-old McSorley.
In 2002, McSorley and 85 other plaintiffs received $ 10 million in a deal with the archdiocese of Boston, and McSorley received nearly $ 200,000. McSorley was an important voice against the cover-up in the Catholic Church by cardinal Law, who did not drive criminal pedophile priests out of office but kept the child abuse going. McSorley was encouraged by others to report their abuse - and McSorley wanted to help more victims of church officials. He had refused the handshake with cardinal Law. McSorley said to the money, "The money is not going to change my life. My heart is always going to be broken because of this. I mean, these are people my family once loved.").
In July 2003, McSorley was temporarily arrested for drug offenses, and in August 2003, he was found unconscious and in critical condition floating in Neponset River in Dorchester. McSorley later said he did not have suicide in mind, that's not the answer ("Suicide is not the way out"). He also wanted to be a good father for his son. McSorley was unemployed and was on heroin, fentanyl, alcohol and marijuana. Alexa MacPherson wanted to reach a withdrawal in a hospital, but McSorley was rejected by the hospitals always because of the lack of health insurance.
Alexa MacPherson said that the pain is not over with money. The church uses money like a gun, and McSorley spent the money on drugs ("The money seems to have been a weapon. . . . It definitely gave him the means to buy drugs"). Finally, a treatment in Brookline came, but his mind remained confused ("very troubled"). Overall, McSorley's is leaving the world with his courage for speaking about child abuse in public, also church officials, and this is a big heratige for all abuse victims and for their attorneys. McSorley leaves a little son.
Video March 8, 2018: The report of victim Phil Saviano about cr.ped. priest Geoghan: carry boxes, card tricks, erotic card games, abuse even during the mass (!) - AIDS patient has nothing to lose - lawsuit, control of files, confidants are detected, Boston Globe was "not interested" at first - Spotlight
Victim Phil Saviano in the 2018 interview with Daily Mail [8]
Video: Phil Saviano on the story that inspired the movie Spotlight - Daily Mail (6'39'')
Video: Phil Saviano on the story that inspired the movie Spotlight - Daily Mail (6'39'')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkDJILy6ij8 - YouTube channel:Daily Mail (upload: March 8, 2018)
The video protocol:
Strategies of cr.ped. priest John Geoghan
-- Let the boys carry boxes in the rectory (1'30 '')
-- Show the boys card tricks (1'55 '')
-- Show the boys erotic card games (1'57 '')
-- Abuse even during the Holy Week in the Church, and he was caught (3'0 '').
Geoghan had the victim Phil Saviano in the rectory carry boxes from top to bottom (1'30 ''), could inspire the boys with card tricks (1'55''), and one day it was an erotic card game (1'57''), and the 11- and 12-year-old boys found it odd, but wanted to know what was on those cards (2'7 ''). Priest Geoghan was instinctual, but had no desire or ability to control his sexual desire, and he was quite ruthless (2'25 ''). One event during Holy Week, for example, was that he even harassed children during processions when it was behind a door, there I was and another kid, and then he was caught (3'0 '') - [but no consequences].
The proceedings against Geoghan - NO standstill agreement - documents prove: 7 priests know about Geoghan's crimes and say nothing - Boston Globe keeps silent first
-- Access to documents proves: 7 priests in 4 states know of Geoghan's crimes with systematic child abuse (3'14 '')
-- Phil Saviano does not accept hush money but wants to bring this important thing to the public and writes a 4-page letter (3'35 '')
-- Phil Saviano reports his knowledge to the Boston Globe, which answered: "no interest", all "old hat" (3'55 '')
Gerard-O'Neill, the editor of Spotlight 1972-1979+1986-2001 blocking the petitions of Phil Saviano: alles "old hat" [82] - Walter Robinson, editor in chief of Boston Globe since 2001 [61]
-- then came a change of the editor in chief of the Boston Globe: and Spotlight team is asking for information with Phil Saviano (4'24'')
Phil Saviano filed a civil lawsuit and got access to documents, and there were 7 priests in 4 states who knew that priest Geoghan was a criminal-pedophile child abuser (3'14 ''). So Phil Saviano knew that the priests were also involved in the cover-up of the crimes (3'17 '').
Phil Saviano:
<With me there was no standstill agreement, so I had the opportunity to talk about it, I thought that was really a very important matter, I wanted to go public with the documents, I sent them [the Boston Globe] a 4-page Letter (3'35 '') I gave them heaps of information on how the church handles its treatment centers, etc. (3'42 '') To my great surprise and consternation, they simply replied: This is all old coffee and they are not interested in following up on this matter (3'55 '') .A few years later, the editor-in-chief moved to Boston, and this new person was very interested in the subject, delving into it (4'2 ''), and giving the spotlight Team asked for the research, and I was asked (4'10 ''). I gave the Boston Globe a few years ago all the information, and the answer was: 'We are not interested' (4 ') 24 '').
I settled my case without signing a confidentiality agreement which gave me the ability to talk about this, and I thought it was a really important story and I went to the Globe with the documents with a - you know - sent them a 4 page letter (3'35''). I gave them a lot of information explained how the Church run treatment centers operate and so on (3'42''). And - much to my - much to my - not only surprised but also dismay - they came back with a response that: 'Well, this is old news, we're not really interested in following up on this' (3'54''). Several years later, there's a new editor that comes to town, who has a different approach to this issue, and he actually wanats to dig into it (4'2''), so, he signs the Spotlight team the task of doing the reporting, they called me in and they asked me about these things (4'10''), and I'm sitting there in the meeting, and finally I said: 'Are you sure that you really want to know about this stuff? Because I gave most of the same information to the Globe several years ago and they said: We are not interested (4'24'').
Phil Saviano fighting for presenting the information in public in 1992 - as a gay AIDS patient, he has nothing to lose - career does not care
You know, I went public in December of 1992, which is very early in the history of this issue (4'31''), and it was a very very embarrassing thing to talk to a TV for our news reporter about sexual activity with a priest when I was a kid (4'43''), and - ahm - at that time, I was also quite sick. I was an AIDS patient (4'53''), and - ah - I - I really felt that having AIDS freed me up to do something that I probably would not have had the courage to do otherwise (5'10'') because at that point - A) I was dying, B) My career was destroyed - ah - in the eyes of many people my reputation was destroyed, you know being gay, having AIDS (5'19'') - ahm - essentially I didn't have anything left to lose, and I think that, had I not been been sick, I would have been deeply immersed in my career, I was in public relations, and I think that it would have been very very difficult for me to go public (5'39''). I would have thought that I've - you know - it's putting my career in jeopardy, and I'm not sure that I would have had the courage to do so (5'48'').
The movie Spotlight - actor Neal Huff plays Saviano - the list with 13 cr.ped. priests
I'm so happy that of all the actors in the United States they chose Neil to play me (5'56'') because A) First of all he does a fabulous job, he hits the range of emotions that I was feeling, the big scene is when I go in and meet with the Spotlight team (6'6''), and - ahm - you know - start my basic job was to go in there and educate them and also deliver the list of 13 priests that I knew at that time with child molesters in Boston (6'17''). He does a really good job, but the other reason I'm so happy that he's playing me is that Neil Huff is an actor with a heart. He cares about this issue, I think he gets it (6'29''), and I think he realizes how important it is. And I think that he personally is very very excited to be part of this movie (6'38'').>
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Katholische Kirche=organisiertes Verbrechen -- Daten über Geoghan: Die Tatorte des kr.päd. Priesters John Geoghan -- 87 kr.päd. Priester in der Erzdiözese von Boston - die Vertuschung bis zum Auffliegen am 6.1.2002 -- 1970er bis 1990er Jahre: Vertuschung durch Polizei, Anwälte, Staatsanwälte, Reporter, und durch Erzbischof Law - der kr.päd. John Geoghan ist nur einer von 20 auf der Liste, am Ende einer von 87 (!) -- Die Erzbischöfe in Boston: Medeiros und Law -- Untersuchungen in den 1990er und 2000er Jahren durch Spotlight+SNAP: Geoghan ist Thema, aber da sind noch viel mehr -- Die Zusammenarbeit zwischen Geoghan und Erzbischof Kardinal Law -- Das Prinzip von Erzbischof Bernard Law: Der kriminelle Priester wird nie entfernt, sondern immer "weitergeben" -- Ab September 2001: Spotlight wird auf die Diözese angesetzt - zuerst sind es 13 kr.päd. Priester, dann 87 (!) --
23.3.2001: Artikel Cardinal Sin in der Untergrundpresse von Boston Phoenix -- 2001: Der Kampf um Dokumente bei der kriminellen Erzdiözese Boston: Gerichtsverfahren, damit die kr. Kirche Dokumente freigibt --
6.1.2002: Der Artikel des Boston Globe - das Thema des serienmässigen Kindsmissbrauch durch kr.päd. Priester kommt in den Mainstream -- 2002: Die Daten gegen Erzbischof Kardinal Law - er wird zuerst entlassen und dann befördert (!) -- 2002: Verurteilung von Geoghan zu 9 bis 10 Jahren Hochsicherheitsgefängnis -- 2003: Geoghan wird im "Hochsicherheitsgefängnis" ermordet -- 2003ca. Dokumente und Schmerzensgeld für 550 Missbrauchsopfer -- Opferanwalt MacLean verarbeitet seinen eigenen Missbrauch seiner eigenen Internatszeit -- 2004: Ex-Erzbischof Law wird neuer Erzbischof einer Vatikan-Basilika in Rom (!) -- Rom November 2011: Rücktritt von Law -- 2015: Film "Spotlight" über die kr.päd. Priester und die Vertuschung durch die kr. Kirche in Massachusets -- 20.12.2017: Tod von Erzbischof Bernard Law -- Boston Globe 6.1.2002: Kriminelle katholische Kirche mit Kindsmissbrauch durch schwule-pädophile Priester ohne Ende - Priester Geoghan ist nur ein Beispiel: Kirche erlaubte jahrelang Missbrauch durch Priester --
Boston Phoenix 23.3.2001: Die kath. Kirche ist ein kriminell-pädophiles System: Täter Geoghan, Gauthe, Porter, Llanos etc. - verhaltensgestörte Opfer - die Kirche gibt Millionen aus, um die Opfer zum Schweigen zu bringen etc. Die Hauptsünde --
16.8.1982: Protestbrief von Margaret Gallant an Kardinal Medeiros: Geoghan hat 7 Buben missbraucht - sie wird nicht stillhalten Es fehlen klare Details, welcher Missbrauch wo wann wie -- Es fehlen Massnahmen gegen Priester Geoghan -- Minderjährige sind gesetzlich geschützt - schweigen würde die Intelligenz beleidigen -- Vor Geoghan wird nicht gewarnt - Eltern bleiben ahnungslos -- Die Welt vor Geoghan schützen - Geoghan hat den falschen Beruf gewählt -- Die Drohung, den Fall Geoghan dem Papst zu unterbreiten -- Das Recht zu warnen ist immer da -- Die kr.kath. Kirchenleitung schweigt -- Priester Damien schlug einen Kinderschänder zusammen --
20.8.2018: Brief von Erzbischof Medeiros: Er sichert gegen Geogham Massnahmen zu zum Kinderschutz --
6.9.1984: Protestbrief von Margaret Gallant an Kardinal Law: Geoghan hat 7 Buben belästigt - die Schande für die Kirche wird gigantisch sein -- Dezember 1999: Erste Anhörung von Geoghan vor Gericht in Boston und Cambridge: Der kr.päd. Priester Geoghan behauptet vor Gericht, er sei "nicht schuldig" - Opfer im Korridor --
Video 8.3.2018: Der Bericht von Opfer Phil Saviano über Priester Geoghan: Kisten tragen, Kartentricks, erotische Kartenspiele, Missbrauch sogar während der Messe (!) - AIDS-Patient hat nichts zu verlieren - Prozess, Einsicht in Akten, Mitwisser fliegen auf, Boston Globe war zuerst "nicht interessiert" - Spotlight: Strategien des kr.päd. Priesters John Geoghan -- Das Verfahren gegen Geoghan - KEIN Stillhalteabkommen - Dokumente beweisen: 7 Priester wissen von Geoghans Verbrechen und sagen nichts - Boston Globe schweigt zuerst --
Der Gang von Phil Saviano an die Öffentlichkeit 1992 - als schwuler AIDS-Patient hat er nichts zu verlieren - Karriere ist ihm egal -- Der Film Spotlight - Schaupsieler Neil Huff spielt Saviano - die Liste mit 13 kr.päd. Priestern --
Newsweek 6.3.2002: Geoghan-Opfer McSorley, Mark Keane, Muzzi - Opfer auch in Maryland, NY, Kalifornien, Iowa, Arizona, Illinois - die Strategien der kr. kath. Kirche wie bei Enron: Schweigen bis zum Untergang - Schweigegelder in Millionenhöhe+Redeverbote - kr.päd. Priester Gauthe+Porter etc. Sünden des Priesters -- Opfer McSorley: Eis essen und dann der sexuelle Missbrauch im Auto - der Befehl, Geheimnisse zu bewahren -- Kardinal Law kommt mit "Vergebung" - er kann mit der Wahrheit nicht umgehen - Geoghan Ende Februar 2002 verurteilt -- Heimliches Schweigegeld: 10 Millionen Dollar für 50 Fälle - 60 bis 70 kr.päd. Priester auf der Liste von Law - 86 Zivilklagen gegen Geoghan anhängig - Law hat total versagt -- Bevölkerung fordert den Rücktritt von Kardinal Law - Ex-Priester Eugene Kennedy: Die Kirche handelt wie Enron: Probleme ignorieren bis zum Untergang -- Die katholische Epidemie: Die Liste der kr.päd. Priester geht an die Justizbehörden - Missbrauch in Philadelphia, Arizona, Maryland, New York, Kalifornien, Iowa, Illinois etc. -- Der Mechanismus: Die kath. Kirche hat durch Sexverbote die kriminelle Pädohilie als System -- Strategie: Pädophile werden absichtlich Priester, um an Kinder ranzukommen, oder sie meinen, Priester sein würde sie "heilen" -- Oder: "Unreife" Männer geniessen die Strukturen der Kirche und machen, was sie wollen - Geoghan wurde schon im Seminar vom Rektor als "unreif" beschrieben -- 20.2.2002: Jüdischer Kantor wegen Kindsmissbrauch am 3 Jahre alten Neffen verhaftet -- Opfer Muzzi 1960er Jahre: Geoghan segnet die Kinder im Bett und streichelt Genitalien von Kindern -- Opfer Keane: Vergewaltigung durch Geoghan in einem Umkleideraum eines Jugendclubs -- Kirchendokumente vor Gericht - die Wut gegen die kriminelle kath. Kirche steigt gegen die blinden Vatikan-Autoritäten -- Kriminelle kath. Kirche betet nur, statt Massnahmen zu ergreifen - Drohbriefe an ehrliche Priester, die kr. Leute melden - Redeverbote -- These von Berry: Kriminelle kath. Kirche will nur ihren Ruf polieren -- 1980: Madeiros stoppt Geoghan nicht - 1984: Priester Gauthe in Louisiana fliegt auf - Law stoppt Geoghan nicht -- 1986: Bischofskonferenz zu sexuellem Missbrauch von Minderjährigen - Doyle prophezeit 1 Milliarde Dollar Kosten Schweigegeld - Schweigegeld 1980-2002: 250 bis 800 Millionen $ - Geoghan missbraucht McSorley -- 1993: kr.päd. Priester James Porter fliegt auf - 18-20 Jahre Gefängnis - Kardinal Law legt Verfahrensrichtlinien fest -- 1995: Geoghan als Vagabund zwischen Reha-Heimen und Altersheimen - 10 Millionen Dollar Schweigegeld - Kardinal Law in Rom will Geoghan loswerden -- 2001: Strafprozess gegen Geoghan -- Kardinal Law glaubte an eine Heilung von Geoghan -- Woher kommt das Schweigegeld? - Die Behauptung einer "Versicherung" -- Kardinal Law muss Geld für die "Einigungen" mit Schweigegeldern auftreiben - Grundstücke verkaufen etc. -- Bischöfe wollen den "Glauben wiederherstellen" - Eltern wenden sich von Priestern ab
Quellen
[web01] Wikipedia: John Geoghan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Geoghan
[web02] Wikipedia: Die Gruppe Spotlight des Boston Globe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(film)
[web03] http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/04/18/the_hole_in_the_heart_of_a_star/
[web04] http://archive.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/04/18/the_hole_in_the_heart_of_a_star/?page=2
[web05] Wikipedia: Kirche Santa Maria Maggiore in Rom: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_Maggiore
[web06] Wikipedia: Krimineller Kardinal Bernard Francis Law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Francis_Law
[web07] Wikipedia: Martin Baron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Baron
[web08] Boston Globe 6.1.2002:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/special-reports/2002/01/06/church-allowed-abuse-priest-for-years/cSHfGkTIrAT25qKGvBuDNM/story.html
[web09] http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news/2001_03_23_Lombardi_CardinalSin.htm
http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/00882888.htm
[web10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phoenix_(newspaper)
[web11] Michael D'Arcy wird von der kriminellen Kirche als Strafe für seine Warnung gegen den kr.päd. Geoghan von Boston nach Indiana versetzt:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Michael_D'Arcy
[web12] Der portugiesisch-stämmige Bischof Medeiros in Texas mit Feldarbeitern und Gefangenen und als Erzbischof in Boston gegen irisch-rassistische Katholiken und gegen das Abtreibungsgesetz: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humberto_Sousa_Medeiros
[web13] Video: Phil Saviano on the story that inspired the movie Spotlight - Daily Mail (6'39''): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkDJILy6ij8
[web14] Artikel des Boston Globe über den kr.päd. Priester (6.1.2002):
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/special-reports/2002/01/06/church-allowed-abuse-priest-for-years/cSHfGkTIrAT25qKGvBuDNM/story.html
[web15] 23.3.2001: Artikel von Journalistin Lombardi vom Boston Phoenix über den kr.päd. Priester Geoghan: Cardinal Sin (23.3.2001):
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news/2001_03_23_Lombardi_CardinalSin.htm
original: http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/top/features/documents/00882888.htm (der Boston Phoenix ist seit 2013 eingestellt [web10])
[web16] Video: Dec. 1999 | Fr. Geoghan Is Arraigned On Criminal Charges - Boston Catholic Child Sex Abuse (6'49'')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22kMZP7RQq8
[web17] Selbstmord von Geoghan-Opfer McSorley: http://archive.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories5/022404_mcsorley.htm
[web18] http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/real-spotlight-meet-team-inspired-oscar-nominated-film/story?id=37139332
Vídeo: Spotlight: Inside the Investigation That Shook the Catholic Church (1'' bis 1'6'')
[web19] https://www.boston.com/news/untagged/2015/11/02/the-true-story-behind-that-catholic-priest-rehab-house-in-spotlight
[web20] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Roxbury
[web21] Vídeo: The Boston Globe Spotlight Team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJfyjq80Ths
[web22] Hochsicherheitsgefängnis Souza-Baranowski in Lancaster in Massachusets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souza-Baranowski_Correctional_Center
Fotoquellen
[1] Kindsmissbrauchs-Priester Geoghan: http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news/2002_01_06_Rezendes_ChurchAllowed.htm
[2] Karte von Massachusets ("USA"): https://www.pinterest.de/pin/531565562243399122/ - https://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/massachusetts/
[3] Das Polizeidepartement von Boston (Police Department): https://rizzoliandisles.fandom.com/wiki/Boston_Police_Department
[4] Der Vertuscher-Erzbischof Kardinal Law, Portrait der 1980er Jahre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Francis_Law
[5] Der kriminelle Mitwisser und Mittäter Erzbischof Kardinal Law 2001: Video: Jan. 13, 2002 - David Muir Boston TV News Overview of Fr. John Geoghan Child Sex Abuse Case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Gg0YShZdI (1'10'')
[6] Opferanwalt Phil Saviano: Video: Jan. 13, 2002 - David Muir Boston TV News Overview of Fr. John Geoghan Child Sex Abuse Case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Gg0YShZdI (1'33'')
[7] Geoghan Missbrauchsprozess, Ankündigung im Fernsehen: Video: Jan. 13, 2002 - David Muir Boston TV News Overview of Fr. John Geoghan Child Sex Abuse Case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Gg0YShZdI (2'10'')
[8] Video: Phil Saviano on the story that inspired the movie Spotlight - Daily Mail (6'39''): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkDJILy6ij8 (32'')
[9] Der kr.päd. Priester John Geoghan in den 1970er Jahren [9] : Video: Dec. 1999 | Fr. Geoghan Is Arraigned On Criminal Charges - Boston Catholic Child Sex Abuse (6'49''): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22kMZP7RQq8 (5'2'')
[10] Video: Dec. 1999 | Fr. Geoghan Is Arraigned On Criminal Charges - Boston Catholic Child Sex Abuse (6'49'')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22kMZP7RQq8 (2'37'')
[11-48]: Video: Dec. 1999 | Fr. Geoghan Is Arraigned On Criminal Charges - Boston Catholic Child Sex Abuse (6'49'')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22kMZP7RQq8
[49] Buch Sex Priests and Secret Codes: https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Priests-Secret-Codes-Catholic/dp/1566252652
[50] Zeitung "Pilot" der Erzdiözese Boston: https://newspaperarchive.com/boston-pilot-dec-06-1873-p-1/
[51] Video: Cardinal Medeiros - Boston Busing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-ypl73XDJY (3'4'')
[52] Newsweek Titelgeschichte "Sex, Schande+kath. Kirche" gegen Kardinal Law, 4. März 2002:
http://www.philsaviano.com/index.php/2002/03/04/sex-shame-and-the-catholic-church/
pdf: http://www.philsaviano.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Newsweek-2002-100dpi.pdf
[53] Buch von Eugene Kennedy, Ex-Priester und Autor: Die nicht geheilte Wunde: Kirche und menschliche Sexualität (original Englisch: "The Unhealed Wound: The Church and Human Sexuality"): https://www.amazon.de/Unhealed-Wound-Sexuality-Kennedy-2002-03-11/dp/B01N3ME9MR/ref=sr_1_fkmrnull_2?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=The+Unhealed+Wound%3A+The+Church+and+Human+Sexuality&qid=1552400838&s=gateway&sr=8-2-fkmrnull
[54] Jason Berry: "Führe uns nicht in Versuchung. Katholische Priester und sexueller Kindsmissbrauch" (original Englisch: "Lead Us Not Into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children"):
https://www.amazon.com/Lead-Us-Not-Into-Temptation-ebook/dp/B018YBH068/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=%22Lead+Us+Not+Into+Temptation%22&qid=1552405841&s=gateway&sr=8-1
[55] Kr.päd. Priester Gilbert Gauthe, Portrait: https://richardwsymonds.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/1983-child-sexual-abuse-by-the-roman-catholic-priest-gilbert-gauthe-in-the-diocese-of-lafayette-louisiana/comment-page-1/
[56] Kr.päd. Priester James Porter, Portrait:
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/danthropology/2014/10/17-priests-identified-as-child-rapists-catholic-community-remains-silent/
[57] Geoghan-Opfer Patrick McSorley, Portrait: http://archive.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/stories5/022404_mcsorley.htm
[58] Martin Baren, Chefredakteur des Boston Globe: http://selintasfilm.blogspot.com/2016/09/fakta-film-pemenang-oscar-2016-spotlight.html
[59] Investigativ-Journalistin Kristen Lombardi, Portrait: http://www.bu.edu/bostonia/winter-spring10/assault/
[60] 13.12.2002: Kardenal Law tritt zurück:
https://www.tvn24.pl/kultura-styl,8/matt-damon-opowie-o-ksiezach-pedofilach-to-byl-najwiekszy-skandal-w-dziejach-kosciola-w-usa,333427.html
[61] Walter Robinson, Chefredakteur des Boston Globe:
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/real-spotlight-meet-team-inspired-oscar-nominated-film/story?id=37139332
Vídeo: Spotlight: Inside the Investigation That Shook the Catholic Church (12'')
[62] Michael Rezendes, Investigativjournalist des Boston Globe:
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/real-spotlight-meet-team-inspired-oscar-nominated-film/story?id=37139332
Vídeo: Spotlight: Inside the Investigation That Shook the Catholic Church (16'')
[63] Erzdiözese Boston, Gebäude: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/real-spotlight-meet-team-inspired-oscar-nominated-film/story?id=37139332
Vídeo: Spotlight: Inside the Investigation That Shook the Catholic Church (3'6'')
[64] Zeitungsstapel mit Zeitungen des "Boston Globe":
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/real-spotlight-meet-team-inspired-oscar-nominated-film/story?id=37139332
Vídeo: Spotlight: Inside the Investigation That Shook the Catholic Church (22'')
[65] Sacha Pfeiffer, Investigativjournalistin des "Boston Globe":
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/real-spotlight-meet-team-inspired-oscar-nominated-film/story?id=37139332
Vídeo: Spotlight: Inside the Investigation That Shook the Catholic Church (35'')
[66] Logo von Spotlight:
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/real-spotlight-meet-team-inspired-oscar-nominated-film/story?id=37139332
Vídeo: Spotlight: Inside the Investigation That Shook the Catholic Church (7'')
[67] Der Eingang zur Tageszeitung "Boston Globe":
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/real-spotlight-meet-team-inspired-oscar-nominated-film/story?id=37139332
Vídeo: Spotlight: Inside the Investigation That Shook the Catholic Church (3'11'')
[68] Artikel des Boston Globe am 7.1.2002: Geoghan betete gern mit armen Buben (Geoghan preferred preying on poorer children):
Video: Attorney Who Represented Sexually Abused Children Talks About Own Abuse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMxo0X5NSsQ (30'')
[69] Artikel des Boston Globe vom 24.1.2002: Geoghan wurde von der Kirche lange Zeit gestützt:
Video: Attorney Who Represented Sexually Abused Children Talks About Own Abuse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMxo0X5NSsQ (33'')
[70] Die Adresse des pädophil-kriminellen Priesters John Geoghan: Vídeo: Attorney Who Represented Sexually Abused Children Talks About Own Abuse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMxo0X5NSsQ (35'')
[71] Die Adresse von Catherine Geoghan ab 2002 an der Pelton Street 37, West Roxbury, [Boston], Massachusets:
https://www.boston.com/news/untagged/2015/11/02/the-true-story-behind-that-catholic-priest-rehab-house-in-spotlight
[72] Die Unterschrift des pädophil-kriminellen John Geoghan: Vídeo: Attorney Who Represented Sexually Abused Children Talks About Own Abuse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMxo0X5NSsQ (42'')
[73] Adresse der Klinik in Brighton mit Dr. Brennan: Vídeo: Attorney Who Represented Sexually Abused Children Talks About Own Abuse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMxo0X5NSsQ (36'')
[74] Anwalt Eric Mac Leish (links) an einer Pressekonferenz 2003: Vídeo: Attorney Who Represented Sexually Abused Children Talks About Own Abuse:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMxo0X5NSsQ (56'')
[75] Eric MacLeish wechselt den Beruf zum Rechtsprofessor in New Hampshire: Vídeo: Attorney Who Represented Sexually Abused Children Talks About Own Abuse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMxo0X5NSsQ (1'31'')
[76] Eric MacLeish, Rechtsprofessor in New Hampshire in der TV-Show "Greater Boston" 2013: Vídeo: Attorney Who Represented Sexually Abused Children Talks About Own Abuse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMxo0X5NSsQ (5'58'')
[77] Bischof D'Arcy 2010 nach seiner Pensionierung: Video: CatholicTV Live TV show This Is The Day Guest Bishop John D'Arcy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMxo0X5NSsQ (1'15'')
[78] Der Opferanwalt Mitchell Garabedian während einer Präsentation 2013: Video: Settlements Reached in Clergy Sexual Abuse Cases - Mitchell Garabedian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0_PivSaeF4 (41'')
[79] Der Artikel des Boston Globe vom 6.1.2002: Die Kirche erlaubte jahrelang Kindsmissbrauch durch Priester:
Video: The Boston Globe Spotlight Team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJfyjq80Ths (5'4'')
[80] Boston am späten Nachmittag mit Bucht und Brücken: Video: The Boston Globe Spotlight Team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJfyjq80Ths (6'57'')
[81] Artikel des Boston Globe: Kardinal Law tritt zurück, Nachfolger ist Kardinal Lennon: Video: The Boston Globe Spotlight Team:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJfyjq80Ths (9'5'')
[82] Gerard-O'Neill, der Herausgeber von Spotlight 1972-1979+1986-2001, der die Anfrage von Phil Saviano verweigerte: alles "alter Kaffee":
Video: The Boston Globe Spotlight Team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJfyjq80Ths (10'38'')
[83] Boston Globe Gebäude Luftaufnahme: Video: The Boston Globe Spotlight Team: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJfyjq80Ths (10'43'')
[84]: Hochsicherheitsgefängis Souza-Baranowski in Lancaster (Massachusets), Begegnungszone:
Video: Murder At Souza: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O28zCtGMLDE (15'')
[85] Hochsicherheitsgefängnis Souza-Baranowski in Lancaster (Massachusets), Zaun:
Video: Behind the Uniforms - Mary-Ann Lewis at Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3uenOf5gkg (14'')
[86] Hochsicherheitsgefängnis Souza-Baranowski in Lancaster (Massachusets); Luftaufnahme:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4426554/The-bloody-history-Souza-Baranowski-Correctional-Center.html
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