Greater Boston Video: Attorney in Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal Talks about Own Abuse, by Wgbh News, WGBH, May 23, 2013

Greater Boston Video: Attorney in Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal Talks about Own Abuse

By Wgbh News
WGBH
May 23, 2013

http://www.wgbhnews.org/post/greater-boston-video-attorney-clergy-sex-abuse-scandal-talks-about-own-abuse

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Eric MacLeish was a lead attorney in a 2002-2003 suit against the Boston Archdiocese. After the trial was over, he revealed that he, too, had been sexually abused as a boy by a teacher in England.

Eric MacLeish was a lead attorney in a 2002-2003 suit against the Boston Archdiocese. After the trial was over, he revealed that he, too, had been sexually abused as a boy by a teacher in England.

Attorney Eric MacLeish represented hundreds of people who, as children, had been sexually abused by priests in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. He joins us to talk about the abuse he suffered as a child, and his work changing the statute of limitations on child sex abuse laws.