BOSTON -- Newly-released court documents in the sex abuse case of defrocked Roman Catholic priest John Geoghan reveal that he acknowledged molesting children decades ago.

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Geoghan was found guilty last week of molesting a 10-year-old boy at a Waltham, Mass., swimming pool in 1990. He's been ordered to undergo a 30-day psychiatric evaluation before his sentencing. He also faces other criminal and civil trials for allegedly molesting more than 130 boys.

NewsCenter 5's Gail Huff reported that the court documents were not supposed to be released until Friday, but a judge authorized release of the evidence sooner because so much of the information had already become public.

On Wednesday, during a two-day convocation of priests in Boston, Archdiocese Cardinal Bernard Law reiterated his vow not to resign over the Geoghan case, even as thousands of documents have been released detailing his and the archdiocese' involvement in the Geoghan case.

Law said his resignation is not part of the solution as he sees it. He said that he wants to make the Archdiocese a model for how the issue of sex abuse by the clergy should be handled.

The court documents show that Geoghan confessed to multiple acts of molestation involving boys in the 1970s and '80s.

In a 1995 psychiatric report from the Catholic treatment center where Geoghan was receiving treatment, St. Luke's Hospital Director Stephen Montana wrote, "Father Geoghan should have no contact with male minors that is unsupervised. We recommend Father Geoghan not become involved with any families in which there are minors."

Earlier, in 1989, Bishop Robert Banks was told by Geoghan's psychiatrist, "You better clip his wings before there is an explosion. You can't afford to have him in a parish."

Despite the doctors' recommendations, and Geoghan's admissions of guilt, Law reassigned Geoghan to St. Julia's parish in Weston, Mass., seven months later.

Law has contended all along that Geoghan had a clean bill of health before he was reassigned.

Law said that he is now drafting a letter that will be sent to all parishes and he wants it read to all parishioners.