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It all started with a man named Frank Leary. With six-siblings, Leary went to mass every Sunday. Leary first met Father Geoghan in mid-Spring of 1947. One day in August while Leary was working with the groundskeeper, Geoghan approached him and offered a glass of lemonade to him. Leary, wanting to be nice despite his distaste for lemonade, took it. Geoghan insistently tried to invite Leary into the rectory to show him his stamp collection. Leary gave into Geoghan’s pleas and went upstairs with him. From there, things took a turn for the worst. As Geoghan started bringing the large stamp albums to him, he made Leary sit on his lap so that they could both go through the albums. As every page of the album turned, things got heated sexually.

After Leary’s incident, Geoghan explained that Leary’s mother had suggested the visit, and that Leary and Geoghan both keep it a secret. Soon after that, the visits between Leary and Geoghan lasted for many years, while Leary was too scared and stunned to say anything. During one of the regular visits, a priest caught Geoghan in an act of sexually assaulting the boy; but the priest failed to report of the incident. From there, Geoghan moved in and out of different churches throughout Boston doing activities. He still continued to sexually assault young children. Years and years after of the church’s secrecy about him, he was put behind bars for child sex abuse charges.