Two Cincinnati police detectives drove into the parking lot of St. Anthony Shrine and Friary on Colerain Avenue on Monday morning, Aug. 19, 2019, just as Father Geoff Drew was getting into his blue 2017 Ford Escape.
Text messages from Drew’s phone, extracted by police and obtained by WCPO, show that Drew had a busy morning planned.
He was set to hear a last-minute confession from a young man who wanted privacy because he worried he would get emotional. They agreed to meet from 11:15 to 11:30 a.m. at a Werk Road condo, which police and auditor records show that Drew co-owned with a young man he knew from his time as pastor at St. Maximillian Kolbe in Liberty Township.
Drew also planned to visit his elderly mother at her Green Township home, and then meet a priest friend for Mass and a lunch of BLT sandwiches at 12:30 p.m.
But police had their own plans for Drew.
That morning a Hamilton County grand jury had indicted Drew on nine counts of rape of an altar boy, in what would become one of the most highly publicized and controversial crimes in recent memory.
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