5/21/2023 0 Comments Betrayal by The Boston Globe![]() ![]() ![]() The rectory groundskeeper was Leary’s friend, and Leary helped out a couple times a week, raking freshly mowed grass or gathering hedge clippings in a wheelbarrow. He was like a little imp." Leary said hello to the priest, received his friendly tap across the shoulder blades, and didn’t focus on Geoghan again until the summer. "He always had a big grin-it was as wide as his face," Leary recalled. ![]() After Mass, the parish priest would hug the mothers, shake hands with the fathers, and deliver soft pats to the backs of the children. Andrew’s Church in the Jamaica Plain section of Boston. ![]() The priest’s smiling face was already a fixture at the back of St. The fifth of six children being raised by a single mother on welfare, Leary was thirteen years old and had yet to learn his older brothers’ tricks for ditching Mass on Sunday mornings when he first encountered Geoghan in the late spring of 1974. At first glance, almost no one did.įrank Leary certainly didn’t see it. It was hard to detect the darkness behind John Geoghan’s bright eyes. He was a small, wiry man with a disarming smile that, from a distance, gave him the gentle bearing of a kindly uncle or a friendly neighborhood shopkeeper. ![]()
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