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In 1984, Hershman found a one paragraph newspaper summary of Louisiana priest Gilbert Gauthe's plea agreement and chose to cover the story on the CBS News news program West 57th Street. Tom Topor, who had previously written about rape in The Accused and about pedophilia in Nuts chose to write the screenplay about a fictional character similar ...
Hand of God is a 2006 independent documentary that was acquired for national airing in the United States by Frontline.The film was directed and edited by Joe Cultrera and tells the story of how his brother Paul was molested in the 1960s by their parish priest, Father Joseph Birmingham, who allegedly abused nearly 100 other children.
The film won acclaim from critics and earned a 100% rating from Rotten Tomatoes based on 20 reviews with an average rating of 8.24 out of 10. The site's consensus reads: "With Twist of Faith, documentarian Kirby Dick follows one man's story in a gripping attempt to unravel the history of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church". [3]
Spotlight is a 2015 American biographical drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and written by McCarthy and Josh Singer. [4] [5] The film follows The Boston Globe 's "Spotlight" team, the oldest continuously operating newspaper investigative journalist unit in the United States, [6] and its investigation into a decades-long coverup of widespread and systemic child sex abuse by numerous priests ...
A Roman Catholic priest received a life sentence Friday for his convictions on five counts related to sex-trafficking charges in the molestation of three boys who prosecutors say he met at an Ohio ...
Zacharias was ordained as a priest in 2002, a Diocese of Toledo news release said. In 2020, upon his arrest, Zacharias was placed on administrative leave from his role in the diocese and a pastor ...
The film follows documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney as he examines the abuse of power in the Catholic Church system through the story of four deaf men—Terry Kohut, Gary Smith, Pat Kuehn and Arthur Budzinski—who set out to expose the priest who abused them during the mid-1960s at St. John's School for the Deaf.
The Keepers is a seven-episode American documentary series that explores the unsolved murder of nun Catherine Cesnik in 1969. Cesnik taught English and drama at Baltimore's all-girls Archbishop Keough High School, and her former students believe that there was a cover-up by authorities after she suspected that a priest at the high school, A. Joseph Maskell, was guilty of sexually abusing students.