December 2015 | PARADE — “I can’t fathom why the church refused to treat the abusers as criminals. If you had a house infested with roaches wouldn’t you want to get rid of the roaches? Not move them into other rooms.”
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Spotlight Co-star Neal Huff: Why Didn’t the Church Treat Abusers as Criminals?
Survivors of Clergy Sexual Abuse Discuss How ‘Spotlight’ Portrayed Their Trauma
October 2015 | BOSTON GLOBE — “Ann Hagan Webb didn’t expect to get emotional while watching Spotlight for the first time. As a survivor of sexual abuse by a Catholic priest, she had already lived through the events depicted in the film. But Webb found herself feeling completely overwhelmed as she observed how The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team of investigative journalists personally reacted to uncovering the systemic problem of clergy sexual abuse.”
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For ‘Spotlight,’ Actors Portrayed Hunters Chasing Predators
October 30, 2015 | NY TIMES — “Working from a cramped, dingy office, a scrappy band of journalists exposes the Archdiocese of Boston’s decades-long cover-up of sexual abuse of children by scores of priests. Definitely an investigation worthy of a Pulitzer Prize, which the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team won for that 2002 series. But fodder for a Hollywood film?”
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‘This Is Where It Counts’: ‘Spotlight’ Movie, on Church Abuse Exposé, Premieres In Boston
October 28, 2015 WBUR Radio | “This is where, for this story, the victims are,” actor Mark Ruffalo said. “This is where the people that we’re playing are. This is where the Globe is. This is where it counts, you know?”
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2015 | Phil Saviano on the Story That Inspired New Movie ‘Spotlight’
October 2015 | SNAP New England leader talks with UK reporter about his childhood abuse, how having AIDS in 1992 freed him up to find the courage to go public with his story of abuse, and also how he feels about having actor Neal Huff portray him in the Spotlight movie.
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