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| Two Former Priests Moved by a Massachusetts Prison |
| By New York Times |
| Published: 09/05/2003 |
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Two former priests convicted of sexual abuse of children have been moved to the hospital wing of their Massachusetts prison after the killing of another jailed priest last weekend, prison officials said. The officials described the transfers as new details emerged about an inmate's account that he had tried to warn officers of an impending threat. The two former priests, Kelvin Iguabita and Ronald J. Paquin, were in the state prison at Concord and were transferred at their request because of safety fears, the officials said. Mr. Iguabita is serving a 12-to-14-year sentence, and Mr. Paquin is serving 12 to 15 years. A spokeswoman for the Correction Department, Kelly Nantel, said she could not confirm or deny the transfers to the hospital, generally considered the safest part of the prison. The moves were precipitated by the killing in a protective custody unit of John J. Geoghan, 68, who was convicted last year of groping a 10-year-old boy, one of almost 150 people who have accused Mr. Geoghan of molesting them in his years as a parish priest in suburbs of Boston. Mr. Geoghan was killed on Saturday, officials say, by another inmate in the protective custody unit of his prison, Joseph L. Druce, 38. Mr. Druce is serving a life sentence without parole for strangling a trucker who he believed was gay. Experts raised questions about placing Mr. Geoghan, a convicted pedophile, in the unit with Mr. Druce, who said he hated homosexuals and professed neo-Nazi sympathies. Protective custody is reserved for inmates who may feel in danger and is not intended for predatory inmates who are a threat to others, said James Austin, a professor of sociology and the director of the Institute on Crime, Justice and Corrections at George Washington University. |
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