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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 ...
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 ...
Deliver Us from Evil is a 2006 American documentary film that explores the life of Irish Catholic priest Oliver O'Grady, who admitted to having molested and raped approximately 25 children in Northern California from the late 1970s through the early 1990s. [1]
Sep. 17—Boys from Joplin and Carthage and a boy and a girl from Neosho are among 11 alleged victims of past sexual abuse by Catholic Church officials cited in a lawsuit filed last week against ...
The priest abuse scandals were erupting into the public consciousness in 2004 as Fichter was writing the screenplay. He decided to make them part of the storyline.
A new lawsuit filed in federal court alleges the Catholic Diocese of Springfield hid child sexual abuse by clergy for decades. ... alleged abuse of children as young as 5 years old at churches in ...
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.
A Texas priest who was accused of sexual abuse after allegedly assaulting children decades ago has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. According to Click2Houston, Father Manuel La Rosa-Lopez ...