Father John Geoghan was a Boston priest and a notorious pedophile who symbolized the sexual abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church. He molested nearly 150 boys, and his crimes were detailed in The Boston Globeβs 2002 Spotlight series. Geoghan was ultimately defrocked, convicted of molesting a 10-year-old boy, and sentenced to prison. In 2003 he was murdered by a fellow inmate.
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