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. The shuttling of Geoghan from one parish to another created a devastating coincidence for one family. Kid said Father [Geoghan] did it."63 Memo from Rev. Donna Morrissey, a spokeswoman for Law, said the cardinal and other church officials would not respond to questions about Geoghan. if (form.dest.options[myindex].value != "none")
He `would touch them while they were sleeping and waken them by playing with their penises. . In addition, they had been warned by an inmate that Druce intended to attack Geoghan. After Geoghan's 1989 return to St. Julia's, it was another 38 months before Law took him out of the parish. But Church records note that Rossiter was aware of Geoghans history. In written answers to complaints filed by Patrick McSorley, Law acknowledged he had received a letter in 1984 outlining allegations against the Rev. She testified that Miceli assured her that Geoghan would be handled by appropriate church authorities and would never be a priest again. Mueller also said that Miceli asked her to keep the matter to herself: Bad as it was, he said, `Just try - dont think about it. Parents who learned of the abuse, often wracked by shame, guilt, and denial, tried to forget what the church had done. Geoghan, she recalled bitterly, was eager to help. Since mid-December, the Globe has been requesting interviews with Law and other Church officials.
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We knew something wasnt right, the teacher said. "I felt a little funny about it," McSorley recalled in an interview. In a. [citation needed], John Michael D'Arcy, who had written an unheeded letter of warning to Cardinal Law about Geoghan's behavior, was transferred from Boston to Indiana on February 26, 1985, and ended his career as bishop of the Diocese of Fort WayneSouth Bend. What would it take to turn more offices into housing? But Miceli acknowledged receiving a call from a woman saying Geoghan was spending too much time with her children. But for all Geoghans notoriety, the public record is remarkably skeletal.