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The Boston priest, John Geoghan, has since been defrocked and was convicted of molestation.

"I'm concerned this will turn into a fast food area of the law," said Mitchell Garabedian, who has represented more than 100 victims of John J. Geoghan, the former priest in the Boston Archdiocese who was convicted of molestation.

That concern — that the irrevocable commitment to the priesthood was being undermined by the exodus of priests leaving to marry or because they were simply disenchanted — had already led Cardinal Ratzinger to block the dismissal of at least one priest convicted of molestation, documents show.

David Barnes, a former police officer convicted of molestation, received an 180-day weekend sentence from a Philadelphia-area judge.

Mr. Davis, convicted of child molestation in 1992, was sought on felony charges of molesting three Indiana boys and failing to register as a sex offender.

A priest who was accused but never convicted of child molestation has been defrocked by Pope John Paul II for disobeying orders not to serve as a priest in public.

In the complaint, Dr. Mann says that a July 15 article in the review not only falsely accused him of misconduct but compared him to Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State football assistant coach convicted of child molestation.

She has 17 Level 3 offenders, who have been convicted of child molestation, child rape, kidnapping and a host of other crimes and have served from one to 20 years in prison.

Usual suspects abound -- the overly helpful and curious doctor whose dog found the victim, the set decorator who was once convicted of child molestation -- so that Harry can investigate in standard fashion.

State and local officials opened investigations today into the prison killing of John J. Geoghan, a former priest convicted of child molestation, saying the suspect, a self-proclaimed homophobe, had been planning the killing for more than a month.

The law is one of several enacted to crack down on sex offenders after a 7-year-old girl, Megan Kanka, was raped and murdered in 1994 by a neighbor previously convicted of child molestation.