Defrocked Catholic priest John Geoghan listens to defense cross examination of a witness at Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge, Mass., in this Jan. 16, 2002 file photo. Geoghan, who became a ...

BOSTON -- Long before the public became aware of former priest John Geoghan, clergy sex abuse had cast a shadow over the Roman Catholic Church with claims of molestation and rape, multimillion-dollar ...

The prison murder of John Geoghan marked a grisly end to a sordid tale. Yet in his death, Catholics finally began to speak the language they should have been speaking about the scandal of priestly ...

BOSTON (AP) – Former priest John Geoghan’s slaying prison could present his sexual assault victims a chance for financial compensation, something Geoghan couldn’t provide when he was alive, some legal ...

SHIRLEY Defrocked Catholic priest John Geoghan, who was accused of molesting more than 130 children during his 30 years with the church, died yesterday after he was apparently strangled in prison.

Former Catholic priest John Geoghan listens during a pre-trial motion hearing in Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge, Mass., Monday, Nov 5, 2001. Geoghan was facing two counts of rape of a child ...

A jury began deliberating Tuesday in the murder case against an inmate who claimed he was insane when he strangled child-molesting priest John Geoghan in the clergyman’s prison cell. The jury got the ...

B O S T O N, Jan. 25 -- The Catholic church went through great lengths to protect a Boston priest who was repeatedly accused of molesting children over a period of 30 years, according to recently ...

The first of two criminal trials of a former priest accused of molesting more than 130 people and engaging in improper sexual conduct with a child began today at the Middlesex Superior Court in ...

BOSTON (AP) – The sister of slain former priest John Geoghan said she feared that an “honest inquiry” into her brother’s prison death would be undermined because of punishment and intimidation of ...

SHIRLEY, Mass. — John Geoghan, a defrocked priest accused of being a serial sexual predator, was murdered on Aug. 23 in the medium-security prison where he was incarcerated in Shirley, Mass. His ...

John Geoghan was beaten and strangled to death at Massachusetts' maximum-security Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in 2003 by a fellow inmate. Geoghan, who had accused of molesting as many as 150 ...