BOSTON -- Long before the public became aware of former priest John Geoghan, clergy sex abuse had cast a shadow over the Roman Catholic Church with claims of molestation and rape, multimillion-dollar ...

Former Catholic priest John Geoghan listens during a pre-trial motion hearing in Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge, Mass., Monday, Nov 5, 2001. Geoghan was facing two counts of rape of a child ...

BOSTON (AP) - His crimes ruined young lives, and many say he destroyed their faith in the Roman Catholic Church. But victims of defrocked priest John J. Geoghan have mixed emotions about his sudden ...

This report was prepared by the Globe Spotlight Team: Reporters Matt Carroll, Sacha Pfeiffer and Michael Rezendes; and Editor Walter V. Robinson. This article was written by Pfeiffer.

John Geoghan was beaten and strangled to death at Massachusetts' maximum-security Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in 2003 by a fellow inmate. Geoghan, who had accused of molesting as many as 150 ...