Spotlight Priest John Geoghan Killed

In 2003 at Souza Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts, former Boston priest John Geoghan, a central figure in the film Spotlight, was attacked in his cell. Fellow inmate Joseph Druce, a self-described white supremacist serving a life sentence for murder, strangled and stomped him. Geoghan died at the scene. The killing closed the life of a priest who was in prison for sexually abusing more than 130 children.

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