image14on = new Image(); And now, as the plaintiff in one of the lawsuits against Geoghan, McSorley is bitter. Riding home after getting ice cream, McSorley says, Geoghan consoled him. image6on.src = "http://cache.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/images/universal/nav_jan23/opinion_on.gif"; The Rev. The 2015 film Spotlight begins on an evening in 1976 at a Boston Police station, where two policemen are discussing the arrest of Fr. Miceli, until recently a member of Laws cabinet, contradicted Mueller in his own deposition. Several weeks later, Dussourd said, a contrite Thomas came to her apartment and told her that Geoghan had admitted to abusing the boys, but had excused his behavior by telling the pastor, "It was only two families.". And pastors and bishops, meanwhile, viewed the abuse as a sin for which priests could repent rather than as a compulsion they might be unable to control. Geoghan, she recalled bitterly, was eager to help. Miceli disputes her account. Law allowed Geoghan to stay in Weston for more than eight years before removing him from parish duty in 1993. function imgOff(imgName) { image8off = new Image(); On February 13, 1962, Geoghan was assigned as an assistant pastor at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Saugus, Massachusetts. Geoghan protested, saying there was no one else to celebrate the 4 p.m. Mass. image6off.src = "http://cache.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/images/universal/nav_jan23/opinion_off.gif"; Nonetheless, Miceli said he drove to Geoghans new parish in Jamaica Plain to relay the womans concerns to Geoghan face-to-face. One of his alleged victims, Anthony Muzzi Jr., said in an interview last week that in addition to his own abuse, his uncle caught Geoghan abusing his son. The uncle ordered Geoghan to leave his house, and complained to the priest's superiors at St. Paul's. Abusive priests - Geoghan among them - often instructed traumatized youngsters to say nothing about what had been done to them. image13off = new Image(); ", Within the next week, two doctors cleared Geoghan for parish duty, according to an archdiocesan chronology that is in court files. In November, acting on a motion by the Globe, Superior Court Judge Constance M. Sweeney ordered those documents made public. image10on = new Image(); His earlier statements to reporters, Benzevich said, had been misconstrued. MacLeish, who has had substantial dealings with the Boston Archdiocese, said he remains astonished at Rogerss assertion that Geoghans assignments were deemed safe by doctors. [21] It was "commonly believed that he would live out his retirement in Rome" after he retired at age 80 in 2011. He was found guilty on February 21, 2002, of indecent assault and battery for grabbing the buttocks of a 10-year-old boy in a swimming pool at the Waltham Boys and Girls Club in 1991, and was sentenced to nine to ten years in prison. [18] Banks remains Bishop Emeritus of Green Bay. On Dec. 7, Bishop John M. DArcy wrote to Law, challenging the wisdom of the assignment in light of Geoghans history of homosexual involvement with young boys., Within the next week, two doctors cleared Geoghan for parish duty, according to an archdiocesan chronology that is in court files. One of his alleged victims, Anthony Muzzi Jr., said in an interview last week that in addition to his own abuse, his uncle caught Geoghan abusing his son. Thomas, echoing a tack common among clerics at the time, later pleaded with Dussourd not to follow through on her threat to go public, she said. The Scituate house, a seven-room home at 64 Oceanside Drive with sweeping views of the Atlantic, is assessed at $268,500. ". "Regardless of what he says, or the doctor who treated him, I do not believe he is cured; his actions strongly suggest that he is not, and there is no guarantee that persons with these obsessions are ever cured," Margaret Gallant said in her plea to Medeiros. Its a beautiful home, a beautiful property.. image11off.src = "http://cache.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/images/universal/newnav/2002_scandal_off.gif";