The movie “Spotlight”
is being welcomed with Oscar buzz. For those of us laboring in the
vineyard of child protection, this is music to our ears, because this
story — about the Boston Globe journalists who revealed the Catholic
bishops’ callous cover-up of prolific pedophile priests
— will likely do more to educate the public about child sex abuse than
the Boston Globe news stories it is about, or the other child sex abuse
scandals in the news, from Penn State and Syracuse to Horace Mann
School, Woody Allen and Josh Duggar.
The greatest barrier to child protection is ignorance. The movie shows smart, experienced journalists struggling to comprehend what was right in front of them. “Spotlight” will likely educate millions about the ways in which adults and institutions we trust protect adults and put children at risk every day.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/marci-hamilton-victims-pursue-abusers-article-1.2426370
The greatest barrier to child protection is ignorance. The movie shows smart, experienced journalists struggling to comprehend what was right in front of them. “Spotlight” will likely educate millions about the ways in which adults and institutions we trust protect adults and put children at risk every day.
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/marci-hamilton-victims-pursue-abusers-article-1.2426370