Nazi Pedophile Priest Killer Gets Life, Again

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 Druce, 40, was given a mandatory sentence of life in prison without parole.

After hearing the verdict, he looked at the jury that rejected his insanity
defense
and said, "It’s all right. Good job." As the jurors filed out of the
courtroom, he said: "No hard feelings. Have a good night."

Have the book/screenplay rights to this story been sold yet? The book
would write itself. How did these two extraordinary individuals come
to that final fatal jail cell that August night in 2003, when Druce talked
his way into Geogan’s cell (with jail personnel complicity, he claims),
somehow jimmied the cell door and lock so it couldn’t be opened, and
the savagely beat the pedophile, jumped off the bunk onto his chest,
and strangled him with stretched out socks.

The book would flash back and forth from chapter
to chapter with the back stories of these two iconic figures. Druce,
savagely beaten on a regular basis by his sadistic father and sexually
molested
by a family friend as
a child,
grew into
a violent
schizophrenic with a pathological hatred of gays and child abusers.
Geogan, the sick poster boy of pedophile Priests was allowed by the church
to scar hundreds of lives as he was shuffled from parish to parish
and covered
for
by
Catholic authorities.

As a young adult Druce drifted into White Supremacy
groups and repeated incarceration. At the time he killed Geogan he
was already serving life without parole for beating to death a gay man
he claimed had made sexual advances towards him. In a state without a
death penalty, he must have figured he had little to lose and something
to gain.

As a young priest, Geogan was successively assigned to Blessed Sacrament
parish in Saugus; St. Bernard’s parish in Concord; St. Paul’s parish
in Hingham; St. Andrew’s parish in Jamaica Plain; St. Brendan’s parish
in Dorchester; and finally St. Julia’s parish in Weston and got Church-sponsored
therapy from a variety of private psychoanalysts and psychotherapists,
as well as at St. Lukes Institute in Maryland; the Institute of Living
in Hartford and Southdown Institute in Ontario. In all, he was accused
of molesting over 130 kids, although he was only convicted on one count.

And then fate brought them together at the Souza-Baranowski Correctional
Center in Shirley, Massachusetts, and one man’s sick compulsion put an
end to another’s. All sorts of questions of justice, karma and gruesome
fate are raised but few are answered. What forces brought these two men
together? What forces made them what they were? Was the outcome inevitable?
Were one or both of them insane? Are the authorities complicit?

Coming soon to a bookstore near you, or at least to Court TV………

from the Boston Globe