John Geoghan was an American Roman Catholic priest who was accused of sexually abusing over 130 boys, raping at least some of them, during his 30-year career covering six parishes. On August 23, 2003, while serving the second year of his prison term in the maximum-security prison Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center, he was killed by inmate Joseph Druce. John Geoghan was one of many priests who were accused of sexual abuse in the 1990s and 2000s, causing the scandal that led to the resignation of Boston's archbishop Cardinal Bernard Francis Law for protecting dozens of priests by reassignment. Geoghan was also reassigned many times despite numerous complaints against him. The Boston archdiocese even paid $10 million in a settlement with 86 of Geoghan's victims. The incident was extensively covered by ‘The Boston Globe’s “Spotlight” team, which exposed the Catholic archdiocese of Boston and inspired the 2015 Hollywood movie ‘Spotlight’ that won the Academy Award.