Oscar Victory for Spotlight Gives Hope for Change Among Abuse Survivors, by Bill Radke & Matt Martin, KUOW, February 29, 2016

Oscar Victory for "Spotlight" Gives Hope for Change Among Abuse Survivors

By Bill Radke & Matt Martin
KUOW
February 29, 2016

http://kuow.org/post/oscar-victory-spotlight-gives-hope-change-among-abuse-survivors

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Church abuse victim Mary Dispenza looks on in her studio with her artwork in the background in her Bellevue, Wash., home on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006.

Church abuse victim Mary Dispenza looks on in her studio with her artwork in the background in her Bellevue, Wash., home on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006.

Bill Radke talks with Mary Dispenza, director of SNAP (Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests) in Seattle, about her reaction to "Spotlight" winning Best Picture at the Oscars Sunday night. The movie tells the story of how Boston Globe reporters uncovered a massive child abuse cover-up by the Catholic Church.