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WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) The inmate who strangled child-molesting
\n priest John Geoghan was convicted of murder Wednesday after failing to
\n convince a jury he was delusional when he killed one of the central figures
\n in the Boston Archdiocese sex scandal.<\/p>\n
Joseph Druce, 40, was given a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.<\/p>\n
After hearing the verdict, he looked at the jury that rejected his insanity
\n defense
\nand said, "It’s all right. Good job." As the jurors filed out of the
\ncourtroom, he said: "No hard feelings. Have a good night."<\/p>\n
Have the book\/screenplay rights to this story been sold yet? The book The book would flash back and forth from chapter As a young adult Druce drifted into White Supremacy As a young priest, Geogan was successively assigned to Blessed Sacrament And then fate brought them together at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional Coming soon to a bookstore near you, or at least to Court TV………<\/em><\/p>\n from the Boston Globe<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) The inmate who strangled child-molesting priest John Geoghan was convicted of murder Wednesday after failing to convince a jury he was delusional when he killed one of the central figures in the Boston Archdiocese sex scandal. Joseph … Continue reading
\n would write itself. How did these two extraordinary individuals come
\n to that final fatal jail cell that August night in 2003, when Druce talked
\n his way into Geogan’s cell (with jail personnel complicity, he claims),
\n somehow jimmied the cell door and lock so it couldn’t be opened, and
\n the savagely beat the pedophile, jumped off the bunk onto his chest,
\n and strangled him with stretched out socks.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n to chapter with the back stories of these two iconic figures. Druce,
\n savagely beaten on a regular basis by his sadistic father and sexually
\n molested
\n by a family friend as
\n a child,
\n grew into
\n a violent
\n schizophrenic with a pathological hatred of gays and child abusers.
\n Geogan, the sick poster boy of pedophile Priests was allowed by the church
\n to scar hundreds of lives as he was shuffled from parish to parish
\n and covered
\n for
\n by
\n Catholic authorities.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n groups and repeated incarceration. At the time he killed Geogan he
\n was already serving life without parole for beating to death a gay man
\n he claimed had made sexual advances towards him. In a state without a
\n death penalty, he must have figured he had little to lose and something
\n to gain.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n parish in Saugus; St. Bernard’s parish in Concord; St. Paul’s parish
\n in Hingham; St. Andrew’s parish in Jamaica Plain; St. Brendan’s parish
\n in Dorchester; and finally St. Julia’s parish in Weston and got Church-sponsored
\n therapy from a variety of private psychoanalysts and psychotherapists,
\n as well as at St. Lukes Institute in Maryland; the Institute of Living
\n in Hartford and Southdown Institute in Ontario. In all, he was accused
\n of molesting over 130 kids, although he was only convicted on one count.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n Center in Shirley, Massachusetts, and one man’s sick compulsion put an
\n end to another’s. All sorts of questions of justice, karma and gruesome
\n fate are raised but few are answered. What forces brought these two men
\n together? What forces made them what they were? Was the outcome inevitable?
\n Were one or both of them insane? Are the authorities complicit?<\/em><\/p>\n