One boy he allegedly molested is the son of a man who had been among the many sexually abused by Porter during the 1960s in the Fall River Diocese, according to Roderick MacLeish Jr., the attorney who represented the man and 100 other Porter victims. More allegations were made to the Archdiocese and Bishop Daily began to be worried. Mueller has said that she informed Paul E. Miceli and he asked her to keep quiet. In the court filing, Law went on to say he then notified Geoghan that he was being removed from St. Brendan's and was "in between assignments.". Wilson D. Rogers Jr., the cardinals attorney, defended the move last summer, saying the archdiocese had medical assurances that each Geoghan reassignment was appropriate and safe.. "I froze up," McSorley said. Of the priests, few would speak publicly. Asked if that meant the Archdiocese had no interest in knowing what the questions were, Morrissey replied: "That's correct.". "Our dependence in the past on Roman Catholic judges and attorneys protecting the Diocese and clerics is GONE," the report said. Since mid-December, the Globe has been requesting interviews with Law and other Church officials. The Rev. image1on.src = "http://cache.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/images/universal/newnav/home_on.gif";
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Geoghan was a former priest ordained in 1962. In 1984, there were still some clinicians who believed child molesters could be cured. No American diocese has faced a scandal of similar dimensions since 1992. The sins of Father Geoghan St. Brendan, one of Dorchester's great Catholic churches, seems destined to close next month.