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John Geoghan was born on 4 June, 1935 in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., is an American Catholic priest and child rapist. Discover John Geoghan's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 68 years old?

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Occupation Former priest
Age 68 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 4 June, 1935
Birthday 4 June
Birthplace Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Date of death 23 August, 2003
Died Place Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, Shirley, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1935

John Joseph "Jack" Geoghan (June4, 1935 – August23, 2003) was an American serial child rapist and Catholic priest assigned to parishes in the Archdiocese of Boston in Massachusetts.

He was reassigned to several parish posts involving interaction with children, even after receiving treatment for pedophilia.

John Joseph Geoghan was born in Boston on June 4, 1935, to an Irish Catholic family.

He lost his father when he was only five years old, and was subsequently raised by his maternal uncle, Mark Keohane, who was a Catholic priest within the archdiocese of Boston.

Geoghan attended local parochial schools.

Intending to become a priest after his father's death, he attended Cardinal O'Connell Seminary.

1954

An assessment in 1954 noted him as having a "very pronounced immaturity".

1962

He graduated in 1962 and was ordained.

On February 13, 1962, Geoghan was assigned as an assistant pastor at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Saugus, Massachusetts.

That December, he talked a man out of committing suicide from jumping off the Mystic River Bridge.

While Geoghan was assigned to Blessed Sacrament, Anthony Benzevich allegedly told church officials that the junior priest was observed bringing boys into his bedroom.

Benzevich would later deny this allegation.

1966

Geoghan was assigned to St. Bernard's Parish in Concord starting on September 22, 1966.

He was transferred after seven months there; church records offered no explanation for his reassignment.

1967

On April 20, 1967, Geoghan was assigned to St. Paul's Parish in Hingham.

1968

Around 1968, a man complained to church authorities that he had caught Geoghan molesting his son.

As a result, Geoghan was sent to the Seton Institute in Baltimore, Maryland, for treatment for his pedophilia.

1970

In the early 1970s, parishioner Joanne Mueller accused Geoghan of molesting her four young sons.

Mueller has said that she informed Paul E. Miceli and he asked her to keep quiet.

Miceli disputes her account.

The church later reached a settlement with Mueller.

1974

Geoghan's next assignment was at St. Andrew's Parish in Boston's Jamaica Plain neighborhood, starting on June 4, 1974.

1980

On February 9, 1980, John E. Thomas told Bishop Thomas Vose Daily that Geoghan admitted to molesting seven boys.

Daily called Geoghan and told him to go home.

Geoghan admitted to the abuse, but said that he did "not feel it serious or a pastoral problem."

He was placed on sick leave three days later and ordered by Cardinal Humberto Medeiros to undergo counseling.

Under the care of doctors Robert Mullins and John H. Brennan, Geoghan underwent psychoanalysis and psychotherapy.

1981

On February 25, 1981, Geoghan returned to pastoral work at St. Brendan's Parish in Dorchester.

While there, he allegedly raped and fondled a boy.

1982

In 1982 the family of seven of Geoghan's victims complained to Bishop Daily that 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.

1984

On September 18, 1984, Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, the new Archbishop of Boston, removed Geoghan from the parish after complaints that he was molesting children.

1990

The investigation and prosecution of Geoghan were one of the numerous cases of priests accused of child sexual abuse in a scandal that rocked the archdiocese in the 1990s and 2000s.

1995

In 1995 Geoghan admitted to having molested four boys during his tenure at Blessed Sacrament.

1998

In 1998, Benzevich told reporters he was branded as a troublemaker for reporting Geoghan, and that church officials hinted that he might be sent to Peru if he persisted.

2002

It led to the resignation of Boston's archbishop, Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, on December 13, 2002.

Law lost the support of fellow clergy and the laity after it was shown that his response to allegations against dozens of priests consisted of assigning them to different parishes, thus allowing sexual abuse of additional children to take place.

Geoghan was convicted of sexual abuse, laicized, and sentenced in 2002 to nine to ten years in Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, a maximum security prison.

Less than a year later, he was murdered there by Joseph Druce, an inmate serving a life sentence.

The Boston Globe's coverage of Geoghan's abuse opened the door for public knowledge of the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Boston and Catholic churches nationwide in general.

2015

This coverage is a key plot element of Tom McCarthy's film Spotlight (2015).