MISSOURI
Fox 2
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(KTVI) – Spotlight was the surprise winner at the Oscars, but the investigative work done by the real life spotlight team was no surprise to one St. Louisan.
‘We were in touch with the Boston Globe investigative team before they wrote their first story and certainly throughout 2002 and 2003 when they ran almost 800 stories about predator priests,’ says David Clohessy, Director Snapnetwork.org.
The story of the Boston globe’s investigation into clergy sexual abuse in the Boston Archdiocese was turned into an Oscar-winning movie.
But for David Clohessy it’s not the closing of a chapter, but instead more work that still needs to be done.
‘The only thing that makes the Boston Archdiocese different if you will than the St. Louis Archdiocese is that there’s just been greater scrutiny,’ says Clohessy.
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