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And the Oscar for best picture of the year goes to … “Spotlight,” a movie chronicling a team of Boston newspaper reporters on the quest for answers in a child sex abuse scandal.
It has provided us another way to start conversations about a distasteful subject. The reality is there are children in our community who are being sexually abused as you read this, and we all have a role to play in protecting them.
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month — yet another opportunity to raise awareness and learn how we can each be part of the solution. We must recognize that disclosure is the turning point in any abusive relationship. The fear that stands in the way of that disclosure can only be broken down with awareness, true compassion and genuine honesty. No matter how uncomfortable the topic makes us feel, we must push past that as a community in order to help these victims.
“Spotlight” focused not only the abuse that took place, but the complicity of a respected institution in allowing it to continue for generations. This point was driven home midway through the film when Stanley Tucci’s character (Mitchell Garabedian, an attorney representing victims), states: “If it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a village to abuse them.”
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