Massachusetts: Judge gives ex-priest maximum sentence

An angry judge on Thursday sentenced defrocked Roman Catholic priest John Geoghan to a maximum sentence of nine to 10 years in prison for molesting a 10-year-old boy at a community swimming pool in 1991.

The trial and conviction of the ex-priest unleashed a pedophilia scandal that has rocked the Boston Archdiocese and the heavily Catholic population of Massachusetts.

Geoghan, 66, will face additional, more serious criminal charges in two pending cases. More than 130 people have accused Geoghan of molesting them during his 30 years as a priest. In addition, more than 80 civil suits stemming from sexual abuse allegations are pending against him.

Washington: Former Nazi camp guard stripped of citizenship

A quarter of a century after prosecutors first accused him of being a Nazi death camp guard, retired Cleveland auto worker John Demjanjuk was stripped of his U.S. citizenship Thursday by a federal judge who concluded that the 81-year-old Ukrainian native concealed his wartime activities when he immigrated to the United States.

Eyewitness accounts, along with recently unearthed documents that include a Nazi identification card, photographs and handwriting samples, show “unequivocally” that Demjanjuk was a guard at German concentration camps where hundreds of thousands of Jews were systematically murdered, Paul Matia, chief judge in U.S. District Court in Cleveland, ruled.

The decision puts the U.S. government one key step closer to deporting Demjanjuk to Europe for the second time.

New Jersey: Ex-cop charged in killing of grandchild, 3 others

A retired police officer shot and killed his 22-year-old granddaughter on Thursday then went door to door and killed three neighbors, police said.

John W. Mabie, 70, who retired from the Newark police in 1976, was charged with four counts of murder. Bail was set at $3 million.

He was arrested as he sat on the lawn in front of his home, about an hour’s drive southeast of Trenton, authorities said. A .38-caliber revolver was found on his front steps, Ocean County Prosecutor Thomas F. Kelaher said.

Kelaher said Mabie was at his mother-in-law’s home down the street from his house when he shot his granddaughter, Natalie Gingerelli. He then left the house, walked to a nearby house and fatally shot Sue Keiran, 42.

Mabie went to another home and shot 27-year-old Thomas Luyster, who died later at a hospital, Kelaher said. The body of Luyster’s fiancee, Suzanne Lavecchia, was found on the lawn in front of the house.

Authorities did not give a motive for the shootings, nor did they indicate what connection Mabie may have had with the three neighbors.