American Justice Sins of a priest

John Geoghan was an American Roman Catholic priest and serial child rapist while he was assigned to parishes in the Archdiocese of Boston in Massachusetts. He was assigned to several parish posts involving interaction with children, even after receiving treatment for pedophilia. Geoghan was finally convicted of sexual abuse, and sentenced in 2002 to nine to ten years . Less than a year later, he was murdered by an inmate who is serving a life sentence The Boston Globe's coverage of Geoghan's abuse opened the door for public knowledge of the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic archdiocese of Boston and sexual abuse by priests in the United States in general. This coverage is a key plot element of the movie Spotlight that was released in 2015.