John Joseph "Jack" Geoghan was an American serial child rapist and Catholic priest assigned to parishes in the Archdiocese of Boston in Massachusetts.
22 Facts About John Geoghan
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John Geoghan was reassigned to several parish posts involving interaction with children, even after receiving treatment for pedophilia.
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John Joseph Geoghan was born in Boston on June 4,1935, to an Irish Catholic family.
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John Geoghan lost his father when he was only five years old, and was raised by his maternal uncle, Mark Keohane, who was a Catholic priest within the archdiocese of Boston.
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On February 13,1962, John Geoghan was assigned as an assistant pastor at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Saugus, Massachusetts.
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In 1995 John Geoghan admitted to having molested four boys during his tenure at Blessed Sacrament.
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John Geoghan was assigned to St Bernard's Parish in Concord starting on September 22,1966.
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John Geoghan was transferred after seven months there; church records offered no explanation for his reassignment.
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Around 1968, a man complained to church authorities that he had caught John Geoghan molesting his son.
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On February 25,1981, John Geoghan returned to pastoral work at St Brendan's Parish in Dorchester.
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In 1982 the family of seven of John Geoghan's victims complained to Bishop Daily that John Geoghan had arranged to meet one of his victims at an ice cream shop in Jamaica Plain and was at the time in the company of another boy.
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John Geoghan was put in charge of three youth groups, including altar boys.
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That same month, Mullins wrote that John Geoghan had "fully recovered", and Brennan stated that there was no need for restrictions on his work as a priest.
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In 1993, John Geoghan retired from active ministry at the age of 58.
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John Geoghan moved into the Regina Cleri residence for retired priests.
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John Geoghan was prosecuted in Cambridge for charges of molestation that took place in 1991.
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John Geoghan was found guilty on February 21,2002, of indecent assault and battery for grabbing the buttocks of a 10-year-old boy in a swimming pool at the Waltham Boys and Girls Club in 1991, and was sentenced to nine to ten years in prison.
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John Geoghan was trapped in his cell by Druce, who jammed the door closed so Correction Officers could not reach him.
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John Geoghan was buried in Holyhood Cemetery in Brookline, Massachusetts, on August 28,2003.
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Robert Joseph Banks, then an auxiliary bishop in Boston, had recommended in 1989 that John Geoghan remain as a parish priest despite receiving an assessment that he would likely continue to act on his pedophilia.
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John Geoghan retired in 2003, having reached the church's mandatory retirement age of 75 years.
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John Geoghan is briefly depicted in the film in a scene taking place in 1976 at a Boston police station, played by an uncredited actor.