In 2021, Geoff Drew was sentenced to seven years in prison for raping a young boy when he worked under the Archdiocese of Cincinnati — and soon, he’ll be a free man once again.
Drew pleaded guilty to repeatedly raping an altar boy who was 9 and 10 years old in the late 1980s and early 1990s at St. Jude in Bridgetown, where Drew was a music director.
It was one of the most highly publicized and controversial crimes in recent Cincinnati memory. It led to the resignation of an auxiliary bishop, the demand for a Vatican investigation by 1,500 local Catholics, and questions about how the Archdiocese of Cincinnati handled complaints that spanned three decades, across three different counties where Drew worked in churches and schools first as a music or band director, and later as a priest…