BOSTON, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- Prosecutors plan to file homicide charges against the alleged prison killer of convicted pedophile priest John Geoghan.
Massachusetts prosecutors told Voice of America Sunday Geoghan was apparently strangled by a fellow inmate Saturday in a Massachusetts prison where he was serving a sentence for child sex abuse.
An autopsy is set for Monday.
The suspect, described by his father as a white supremacist with a hatred of homosexuals, is already serving a life sentence for murder.
Geoghan was accused of sexually assaulting more than 140 children during his career as a priest. Internal church documents obtained by the Boston Globe showed his sex abuse history was well known to church officials, who nonetheless continued to let him work with children.
A probe of the cases forced Boston's Cardinal Bernard Law to resign last year. The Boston archdiocese is now offering $65 million to settle hundreds of sex abuse cases.
