UNITED STATES
TakePart
[with video]
MAR 10, 2016
Celeste Hoang is the Film & TV Integration Editor for TakePart.
As Spotlight captures the unraveling of the Catholic Church’s sex-abuse cover-up, survivors and families have come forward to talk about the decades-long scandal.
TakePart is sharing a series of five interviews, including survivors’ reactions to the film and an interview with Boston Globe reporter and survivor advocate Mitch Garabedian. (Disclosure: Spotlight was produced by TakePart’s parent company, Participant Media.)
“I went 40 years without talking about this,” survivor Jim Scanlan says in one of the interviews. “Matter of fact, I went 40 years avoiding this topic. For the first time in my life since the movie came out, I’ve really come out of the shadows.”
The film follows the newspaper’s Spotlight team of investigative reporters as they delve into allegations of abuse in the Catholic Church, eventually revealing a cover-up at the highest levels of the Archdiocese of Boston that touches off a wave of revelations around the world.
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