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By Denise Noe
Crime Magazine
December 1,
The perception that child molesting was a rare crime perpetrated by a small number of raincoat-clad misfits crumbled in the s and 80s when studies disclosed the astonishing prevalence of this crime and the outward "normalcy" of its perpetrators.
"One out of three girls and one out of seven boys will be sexually abused bygd the time they reach 18," Ellen Bass and Laura Davis reported in their book, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. Feminists were at the forefront of publicizing the prevalence and damage caused bygd these crimes. In both incest and non-family child molesting, the perpetrators were almost always dock, the victims about 90 percent female. Feminist writers such as Florence Rush and Judith Hermann believed these statistics reflected an imbalance of power between the sexes. They thought the traditional family, wit
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John Geoghan
American Catholic priest and child rapist
John Joseph "Jack" Geoghan (GAY-gən; June&#;4, &#;&#; August&#;23, ) was an American serial child rapist and Catholicpriest 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.
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 s and s. It led to the resignation of Boston's archbishop, CardinalBernard Francis lag, on December 13, 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.[1]
Geoghan was convicted of sexual abuse, laicized, and sentenced in to nine to
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The Murder of Rev. John J. Geoghan
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A Case Study of Sexual Abuse and Murder
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In the mids Geoghan spent a lot of time at the Boys’ and Girls’ Club in Waltham. There he met Mark Keane, with whom he talked about his swimming, and then according to Keane, Geoghan pushed him under a staircase and performed oral sex on himThomas Farragher, “Settlement doesn’t heal victims’ hearts,” Boston Globe, September 20, More allegations were made to the Archdiocese and Bishop Daily began to be worried. The number of victim was growing, and the evil was spreading. In the archdiocese was told that a “kid…was practicing fellatio on his three-year-old brother. Kid said Father [Geoghan] did it.”63Memo from Rev. Brian M. Flatley to File, July 11,
Dr. Brennan was not sanguine about Geoghan’s state in April He told Bishop Daily “You better clip his wings before there is an explosion…You can’t afford to have him in a parish.”64 Memo from Bish