UTAH
KUTV
BY CHRIS MILLER WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6TH 2016
The movie “Spotlight” won the Academy Award this year for Best Picture. It shined a light on sexual abuse and the importance of exposing it.
The film was based on the real life experiences of Phil Saviano, who was in Utah Wednesday, to attend a screening of the movie at the Salt Lake City Library and to encourage other victims to come forward.
“I’m finding that a lot of people want to talk to me and I do have some interesting stories to tell,” says Saviano, whose business card describes him as a “survivor” and “whistleblower”. “I was molested, assaulted repeatedly when I was 11 and 12-years-old.”
Saviano first told his story to the Boston Globe in 1992 and worked with investigative journalists for a decade to expose widespread allegations of sexual abuse within the clergy of the Catholic Church.
“I gave them names of 13 priests in Boston and another 14 priests in the next diocese over, who I knew were child molesters, but whose names had never appeared in the newspaper,” he says.
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