After watching the movie, I was very excited, so I translated the report overnight with my classmates. Time is in a hurry, please correct me if there are any errors! Click to read the original English report Please indicate the translator for reprinting. If there is any infringement, please inform the "Church for years of laissez-faire sexual assault by priests"-Knowing Georgen’s past, the church still transferred him from one church to another. Since the mid-1990s, more than 130 people came forward to tell about their terrible childhood experiences, exposing the former priest John Geoghan's 30 years of molesting or raping them in six parishes in the Greater Boston area. Almost all the victims were boys in elementary school, and one of them was only 4 years old. In July last year, it was revealed that Cardinal Bernard Law (Cardinal is the highest head of the Archdiocese of Boston, Translator's Note) has been aware of Geogen’s actions since 1984, but Law still approved He transferred to St. Julia's Church, which was Law's first year as a bishop in Boston. Wilson Rogers Jr., the cardinal’s lawyer, defended this transfer last summer. The archdiocese has medical measures and every transfer of Geogen’s position is “appropriate and safe”. However, a subordinate bishop thought the transfer of Geoghan in 1984 was very risky, and he wrote a letter to protest to the cardinal. Focus team (namely the report team of this article, translator's note) There are good reasons to believe that the archdiocese already possessed tangible evidence for Geoghan’s previous sexual habits. The evidence includes a statement made by him in 1980. According to records, he stated that the frequent sexual assault of seven boys in a large family is not a "serious" problem. Facts have proved that the transfer to St. Julia's Church is disastrous. Geoggen was appointed to be in charge of three youth groups, including adjuncts (the assistants during the Mass, used to be mostly boys, translator's note). In 1989, more complaints of sexual assault forced him to leave due to illness and spent several months in an institution specializing in priests' sexual assault. Even so, the archdiocese still allowed him to return to St. Julia's Church, where Geogen continued to sexually assault children for the next three years. Now, Geogen will face two criminal charges for the first time next week. Even the details of his sexual assault are eclipsed by such a problem, which deeply plagues many Catholics: Geog Gen has experienced three cardinals and many church bishops, but it was 34 years later that these children finally escaped his clutches. What exactly is this for? Donna Morrisy, a spokesperson for Cardinal Labor, said that the cardinal and other church officials refused to respond to questions about Geoghan. She said the church was not interested in knowing what the Boston Globe wanted to ask. Before going to Weston in 1984, Geogen had been repeatedly treated for molesting a boy, at least once admitted to the hospital. He was transferred from at least two parishes because of sexual assault. For example, in 1980, he was ordered to leave St. Andrews Church in Jamaica Plain because he admitted to molesting seven boys there. In 1981, after a year of sick leave, Geogen was sent to St. Brandon’s Church in the Dorchester area. It seemed that he was still unsupervised: Pastor James Lane, who had worked with him for three and a half years, told a friend, No one had ever told him that Geoghan had a history of sexual assault. In November 1984, a complaint about Geoghan's sexual abuse of children forced Cardinal Laura to move Geoghan out of the Dorchester area. Two months later, Cardinal Lao gave Geoghan a fresh start in the Church of St. Julia. Geoghan ceased to serve as a church teacher in 1993. Since then, Cardinal Labor has indulged Geoghan in Weston for more than 8 years. However, according to some civil lawsuits and criminal charges against Geoghan, even this decision to re-arrange Geoghan to serve as a public office in the retired priest’s house did not stop the 66-year-old Geoghan from continuing to search for and molest the young child. . Finally, in 1998, the church "expelled" Geogen, depriving him of his status as a clergy member of the church. Geogen's crime The crime defense lawyer, Jeffrey Packard, said his client would not comment on the charges against him. The first criminal case of Geoghan’s sexual assault case will be held in the Middlesex High Court on January 14 (the publication date of this article is January 6, 2002, translator’s note). The second case will be heard in the Suffolk High Court in February, and he will face some more severe charges. As for the civil litigation, Geogen did not hire a lawyer, nor did he defend the charges against him. Rogers, the cardinal’s lawyer, hinted in July that the church might defend the doctor’s determination of Geoghan’s recovery. The church records obtained by the "Globe" show that Geogen had indeed abstained from sexual assault obsessive-compulsive symptoms at the medical level when he was transferred to St. Julia's church, but only one month after taking office, he committed another crime. In 1984, many clinicians still believed that people who molest children could be cured. But other experts have long warned Catholic bishops that priests who have sexually assaulted children may become frequent criminals. In addition, the experts and lawyers representing the victims of child sexual assault said that it is clear that for the archdiocese, in 1984, Geoghan, who has a record of habitual sexual assault, should not be allowed to return to the church. "In Geoghan's case, the church violated its own most basic values-protecting young children and fostering asceticism," said Richard Sip, a former priest. Sipp is a psychotherapist and an expert on sexual assault by clergy. For a long time, he believes that the Catholic Church is slow in dealing with priests who abuse children. The Focus team found that there is evidence that a senior subordinate of a cardinal’s work was worried that Geogen might cause more scandals in St. Julia’s Church in Weston. Geogen started on November 13, 1984. Served there since. On December 7, Bishop John Darcy wrote to Cardinal Lao, considering "some pasts involving homosexuality with young boys", he questioned whether the appointment of Geoghan was wise. In less than a week, two doctors cleared the way for Geogen's priesthood. The Almanac of the Archdiocese in a court document states, “On December 11, 1984, the doctor: Father [Robert]-Georgen'fully recovered'... On December 14, 1984, the doctor [John]: No mental illness The problem or defect does not affect the work of the priest in his church." These court documents also contain a tragic and predictive letter, which was written to Cardinal Medros before Law in August 1982. Yes, from the aunts of seven victims who were persecuted by Geoghan in the Jamaica Plain. She dedicated her life to teaching The meeting expressed doubts: After Geoghan did something like that to their family, the church actually gave Geoghan another chance to serve in St. Brandon's Church. "No matter what he or the doctor who treated him says, I don't believe he was cured. His behavior clearly shows that he didn't, and there is nothing that can guarantee that a person with a similar hobby can be cured." Margot Lit Galante said this in a letter of plea to the former Cardinal Medeiros. "This makes me feel very confused. The church has shown so little care about it." Galant wrote that the record of the archdiocese obtained by the "Globe" probably explains why Galant was in the two years after the sexual assault. Wrote this angry letter: Geogen appeared again in Jamaica Plain, and he was seen with a little boy. This record shows the second month, "Another letter from Ms. Galante. Why did no one do anything?" In the case of the Jamaica Plains alone, the top officials of the Archdiocese discovered Geoggen Attraction to young boys, and he knows how he chooses his victims: the affable Geogen is usually friends with Catholic mothers who are struggling to feed a family, usually single mothers. He offered to help, usually by offering to take the children to eat ice cream or accompany the children to pray before bed. There is no doubt that his proposal will be accepted. Used to live in the Hyde Park housing project (providing housing for the homeless, Translator's Note), Parik Messoli became a victim of Geogen at the age of 12. It was 1986, two years after Geoghan was sent to Weston. Metsoli said that Geoghan met their family at St. Andrews Church. When he learned that his father had committed suicide, he visited and expressed condolences to his schizophrenic mother. Then, the priest offered to buy ice cream for Maxoli. "I even thought it was a little funny." Messoli recalled in the interview. "I'm only twelve years old, he's an old man." Messoli said, and Geogan comforted him as he drove home after buying ice cream. But then he patted the top of his thigh, and then his hand slid to his crotch. "I was stunned, I couldn't think anymore. He put his hand on my genitals and started to masturbate for me. I was shocked." He added that Geogen then started to masturbate. comfort. "When Geoghan sent the trembling McSorley home, he suggested taking these things as their secrets." He said,'We are all good at keeping secrets. '" Messoli said. For many years, Messoli has been fighting alcohol and depression. Now, as one of the plaintiffs suing Geoghan, Messoli is having a hard time. "Later I discovered that the Catholic Church actually Know that he is a child molester. Every day, this thing bothers me more and more. " Maisoli said. Many documents have yet to be unsealed. The letters from Bishop Darcy and Margaret Galante were discovered by the Globe in reviewing the court’s public documents. There were 84 pending civil lawsuits against Geoggen. But for Geoghan’s scandal, these public records are clearly just the tip of the iceberg. This is because almost all evidence about the church's supervision of Geoghan has been sealed by the court secretaries, and only the lawyers of the church are allowed to view it. In November, High Court Judge Constance Sweeney ordered the documents to be made public. So the Archdiocese appealed to the State Court of Appeal, arguing that the Globe and the public should not have access to documents concerning the internal work of the church. But the church’s appeal was rejected last month. These records, including the testimony of the bishops and personnel files, will be made public on January 26 (this article was written in January 2002, translator's note). The superior bishop was charged with negligence in several civil lawsuits because they knew Geogen’s sexual assault but did not take action to stop the incident. Prior to this, there have never been so many bishops who needed to defend themselves against allegations of sexual assault against a priest. These five bishops have now become the leaders of their respective dioceses. These bishops are Thomas V. Daily in Brooklyn, New York, Robert J. Banks in Green Bay, Wisconsin, William F. Murphy in Central Rockville, New York, John B. McCormack in Manchester, New Hampshire, and There is Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes. This incident is the largest scandal in the American diocese since 1992. In 1992, in the Diocese of Hobuck River, more than 100 victims showed up publicly and showed evidence that Father James Porter forcibly assaulted children, and the then-senior priest Madrio, only after his parents became aware of Porter’s sexual assault. Transfer it from one church to another. Since 1997, the Archdiocese has settled about 50 lawsuits against Geoggen, amounting to more than 10 million U.S. dollars, but has not disclosed any confidential documents. The plaintiffs in 84 pending lawsuits refused to make claims lightly, and the church’s internal documents must also be disclosed in the lawsuit as required. As a result, the archdiocese forcibly took away the information related to the supervision of Geoghan and prevented the public from seeing it. For example, when 25 of the lawsuits included the cardinal as one of the defendants, lawyer Rogers asked the judge to press down all the information about the cardinal, claiming that his reputation would be damaged as a result. This request was rejected by the judge. On December 17, Rogers, lawyer of the Archdiocese, wrote to Jonathan Albano, lawyer of the Globe, Threatening that if the confidential records of any case are disclosed in the report, they will impose legal sanctions on newspapers and law firms. He warned that if reporters interviewed the clergy involved in the case, he would take coercive measures in the courts. For decades, in American Catholic churches, priests’ sexual assault has been concealed. Including Geogen, most priests who sexually assaulted children asked those children who were physically and mentally injured to keep things secret. Most of the parents who discovered the truth felt ashamed and guilty, refused to admit the facts, and tried to forget what the church did. The few parents who chose to complain were also asked to be silent. At the same time, pastors and bishops regarded sexual assault as a violation of the commandment rather than an uncontrollable obsessive-compulsive symptom, and they believed that the priest could be corrected by repentance. The laws of Massachusetts even acquiesced in such covert behaviors, and they still do. During the decades when Geogen molested children, although most guardians were required to report sexual assaults to the police in accordance with the law and may file a lawsuit, the clergy were not bound by this law. It wasn't until last summer that the diocese unexpectedly abandoned its long-standing stance against the law and added clergy to the list of "mandatory reports." But the bill fell silent during deliberation. In recent years, although the church remains confident of the court, the situation has changed. In 1985, at the urging of senior faculty members in some countries, including cardinal labor, the church made a confidential report on the sexual assault of clergy, and the report also predicted this. The report said: "In the past, we relied on the judges and lawyers of the Holy See to protect the diocese and clergy. This kind of day is gone." In mid-December, the "Globe" requested interviews with Bishop Lao and other church officials. But there was no reply until last Friday, the church spokesperson Morrissey stated on the phone that they would not accept any form of interview, including written interviews. When asked if this meant that the archdiocese had no interest in the interview question, Morrissey replied: "Yes." In preparation for this article, a reporter from "Globe" tried to interview Geoghan's former boss or colleague, but no bishop was willing to comment. Few priests among colleagues are willing to speak publicly. One of the church priests hung up directly, while the other slammed the door when he heard Geoghan's name. There is no doubt about the record of sexual assault after his appointment. Geogen had sexually assaulted children when he accepted the priesthood in Saugus in 1962. The diocese recently compensated for the allegations. From the church records obtained by the "Globe", it can be seen that Geogen admitted in 1995 that he had molested himself from the same Family of 4 boys. In the current case, the question that remains to be resolved is whether church officials are aware of the sexual assault at that time. Former priest Anthony Benzevich said that he had warned the church leaders that Geogen would often bring young boys to his residence. After the allegations against Geogen surfaced, Bencovic was also quoted in some news reports. He once mentioned that church officials threatened him by exposing the Geogen incident and threatened to transfer him to South America as a missionary. He told the story to Mitchell Galabatian, who recently represented a series of civil litigation lawyers with Geoghan and the church, and these can be seen in the court's written statement. But when the "Globe" looked back at the court records, it was discovered that when Bencovic went to Galabatian's office in October 2000 to prepare for written testimony, Wilson Rogers III became his attorney. The lawyer's father was the lawyer of Cardinal Labor. Then, after taking the oath, Bencovic changed his testimony. He said that he was not sure whether Geogen took the boys to his room, nor did he remember whether he had reported Geogen's behavior to the children to his superiors. In a recent interview with The Globe, Bencovic said he did remember Geogen bringing the boys to his room. He said Geogen always went to find boys and liked to dress them as priests. However, he repeated his testimony when taking the oath again, and he did not remember to inform his superiors about the matter. Benzvic said that before taking the oath, Wilson Rogers III had approached him and told him that the church was trying to protect him from becoming a defendant and was willing to be his attorney. Benzevich also said that what he said to the reporter before was misunderstood. Galabatian refused to discuss Bencvic's situation with the "Globe" because of confidentiality regulations. However, once there is evidence that the superior is aware of Geogen's sexual assault, the financial compensation that the church needs to pay in the pending lawsuit will be greatly increased. Geogen’s second appointment took place in 1966, when he was dispatched to St. Bernard’s Church. According to the detailed chronology of Geoghan's appointment records provided by the diocese, the term of this appointment is 7 months. The diocese did not explain why the dispatch record is so brief. In a pending case, Geogen was again accused of molesting boys from several families in the parish of St. Paul's Church in Singham, where he was serving at the time, between 1967 and 1974. One of the victims, Anthony Mutz, said in an interview last week that in addition to his own sexual assault, his uncle also found out that Geogen molested his son. His uncle asked Geoghan to leave his house, and And protested to the director of St. Paul's Church. Sipp, a psychiatric therapist who worked at the Seton Association in Baltimore at the time, said that the time of the protest coincided with the time Geoghan received personal treatment for sexual assault at the Seton Association. But Geoghan was not Sypp's patient. During the dispatch of Singham, Geogen will bid farther. He befriended Joanne Muller, a single mother who lives in Melrose and has four boys in the family. According to the testimony, the priest once again became a frequent visitor to the family, becoming Mueller’s spiritual adviser and partner of her son. The oldest children were 12 years old and the youngest was only 5. Mueller confirmed that the third son found her one night and insisted on telling his mother not to let Geogen go near him. "I don't want him to touch mine again... She recalled what her son said at the time. According to Mueller’s testimony, she questioned the other three sons and learned that Geoghan claimed to take them out to buy ice cream, bath them, read bedtime stories, and then They raped them in the form of anal sex and oral sex. At the same time, Mueller also said that Geogen would not let them tell others. A son told her, "We can't tell you because the priest said it was confession. "Müller said that she immediately took the children to meet with Paul Micheli, the bishop of St. Mary's Church in Melrose. He knew Geoghan and his family well. Micheli assured her that the church Geogen will be dealt with in an appropriate manner, and “cannot be a priest anymore.” He also told her to keep the matter secret: “Such a bad thing has happened, try not to think about it, this kind of thing will no longer happen. "Micelli is now a member of Cardinal Lao’s cabinet. His testimony contradicts what Mueller said. He claims that he can't remember her name and has never had the meeting like she said. But Mitch Lee admitted that he did receive a phone call from a woman saying that Geoghan spent too much time with his children. In his testimony, he said that there was no mention of sexual assault on the phone. Nevertheless, Micheli called himself I went to Geogen’s new church in the Jamaican Plains and conveyed this lady’s concerns to Geogen. The family in need of help is very fragile. If it is said, Mueller made it easy for Geogen to enter his home. Taking the opportunity to approach the child, the situation of Mariata Dusold is the same. From 1974 to 1980 to the present, at the priest’s next stop, St. Andrews Church in the Forest Hills of Jamaica Plain, the same situation was repeated again. Happened. Dussold was raising her 4 children alone, three boys and one girl, as well as the four sons of her nephew. She said in an interview that the community where she lives is very poor, and she hopes that there will be one that will bring the children Admired priest. Later, she met Geogen, who was in charge of the church's acolyte and the Boy Scouts. She bitterly recalled that Geogen was willing to help. Before long, he would come to the house almost every night and take it with him regularly. Seven children went out to buy ice cream and coaxed them to sleep. Such days lasted for almost two years. But every time, Geogen would regularly act against the seven boys. According to court records, he sometimes spoke to them/ Sometimes he touched their births/reproductives/organs, or occasionally forced the children to touch his births/reproductives/organs when he prayed. There was such a record in a 1994 memo marked "Private Confidentiality" , Geogen stays at Dusold’s house even during the retreat , Religious retreat, translator’s note) According to court files, Dussold’s explanation and a church official who did not want to be named, we learned that Dussold finally knew about it because the children Tell their aunt Margaret Grant. Dussold was frightened and complained to the priest John Thomas, the priest in charge of the nearby St. Thomas Aquinas Church. Thomas questioned Geoghan, but was frightened by Geoghan's attitude. Geogen admitted it casually. "He said, yes, it's all true." The official recalled, as if asking him the question "Do you like chocolate or vanilla ice cream." Thomas immediately Drive to the office of the Archdiocese in Breton and inform Daly. That same afternoon, on February 9, 1980, Daly called Geoghan who was in the church of St. Andrews. The conversation between the two was brief, "Go home." Geoghan argued that no one would come to do it at four o'clock in the afternoon. Zhong's Mass, but Daley said, "I'll do it." "Go home." The official said Daley later drove to Jamaica Plain and celebrated Mass. Francis Delaney is Geoghan's priest in charge at St. Andrews Church. In the interview, he said that the church did not tell him why Geogen left the church. Dussold said that just a few weeks later, a guilty Thomas came to her house and told her Geogen admitted that he had molested these boys, but he excused himself by saying that "there were only two." Thomas was in the priest's room at the time. An additional service was held, and then Dusold begged not to make the matter public. He said that Geoghan had studied for a long time before he got the priesthood, and if the accusations were made public, the consequences would be serious. Dussold said, Thomas asked her, "Do you know what you took him?" Thomas is now retired and declined an interview. A 1994 archdiocese document recorded Geoghan’s recurring problems and his attitude towards the seven children: Geoghan acknowledged the incident, but did not think it was a serious issue or a problem related to the duties of the diocese. . Geoghan took medical leave for his obsessive-compulsive symptoms for the next few years, but was still living with his family in West Roxbury. In February 1981, he was dispatched to St. Brighton, the fifth church where he served. Almost as soon as he arrived, Geogen took charge of the sacrament, made friends with the children and their parents, and even took the boys to his summer house in Scituate. The parents later discovered that Geogen molested the boys there. The head priest of St. Brighton’s Church, Ryan, revealed to a trusted teacher in the parish that the reason Geoghan was so unrestrained was because the bishop had not informed him of any of Geoghan’s previous convictions. The teacher, who did not want to be named, said that at the beginning, Geogen's willingness to selflessly devote his time to spending time with the children was admirable. But slowly, the parishioners began to doubt, "We know something is not quite right." The teacher said, "He only looked for a few fixed goals." Geoghan spent two years in this diocese and committed a crime. Multiple cases of sexual assault. In 1984, his tenure was abruptly interrupted, and Ryan said he received a complaint at that time that Geoghan had sexually harassed children in the parish. The teacher recalled that Ryan was extremely shocked and cried bitterly when he told himself the news. She said that he was very angry that he had not been warned, "Father Ryan was almost ruined by this incident." Ryan is now retired. When a reporter from the Globe recently visited him, he heard about Gio Gen's name shook his hand and closed the door. The cardinal denies that he "passed on the problem." Last summer, Cardinal Labor argued in the diocese newspaper that "I never tried to transfer the problem from one place to another." Just after the statement made by the cardinal, There was news that he had known the situation a long time ago. We saw in a court document that as early as September 1984, he had learned of Geoghan’s "four-year-old boy" accusation of sexual harassment of seven boys in the Jamaica Plain. According to court documents, Cardinal Lao said next that he noticed that Geoghan had been transferred from St. Brighton’s Church and was in a state of "waiting for appointment." The cardinal’s legal response letter did not mention any of Geoghan’s molestation of children in the St. Brighton church area, but only responded to the prosecuted cases. although There is a bad record, but Geogen is still sent to St. Julia's Church. According to the church yearbook, in the first two years of his tenure, he was mainly responsible for the priesthood and youth organization of the church. Three weeks after Geoghan arrived in Weston, Bishop Darcy protested to the cardinal, mentioned Geoghan’s problem, and said: "I know that the recent sudden transfer of him from St. Brighton may have something to do with this problem. The copy of this letter contains an excerpt, referring directly to Father Nicholas Driscoll, who admitted last week that he was transferred before Geoghan arrived in the diocese of Santa Giulia. But his departure was mainly due to alcoholism and depression, not sexual assault. Therefore, Darcy expressed his concern in the letter, "There will be more serious scandals in this diocese." If "something happens," the residents of the diocese will feel that the bishop "sends them a problematic priest." Darcy asked the Cardinal to consider making Geoghan be on duty only on weekends "while receiving some kind of treatment." "Globe" has not found evidence that Cardinal Lao accepted this proposal. Last week, the retired senior priest Francis Rossit, Geogen’s superior at St. Giulia’s church, declined an interview with this newspaper. But the church records show that Rossit was aware of Geoghan's criminal record. The accusations faced by Geoghan in Middlesex and Suffolk show that after Cardinal Labor sent him to Winston in 1984, Geoghan molested at least 30 boys, all of which occurred in Before and after the half-year medical leave in 1989. After returning to St. Julia’s Church in 1989, Geoghan worked there for another 38 months before being transferred. According to the allegations, three years later, Geogen was still looking for targets. Among the victims was an adjunct who was dressed in a gown for the christening ceremony. Geogen's movement between churches was a fatal coincidence for a family, and it brought them a devastating blow. A boy he molested happened to be the son of a victim of a boy's sexual assault in the Diocese of Fall River in the 1960s. Roderick McLeish, the attorney representing this victim and one hundred of the Potter victims, provided us with this information. McLeish refused to provide us with specific information about the family and said that he has not filed a lawsuit against Geoggen’s molestation of the boy. McLeish has close ties with the Archdiocese of Boston, and he has been shocked by Rogers’s statement that Geoghan’s several appointments had received the doctor’s security clearance. He said: "Since the church is aware of Geogen's misconduct, no responsible doctor would think it is safe to transfer him from one church to another." Spotligh
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