Watching Spotlight,
the Oscar-bound movie about The Boston Globe’s investigation of Massachusetts clergy
who raped children, and reading about employees of St. George’s School in
Middletown, Rhode Island, who sexually abused students has prompted memories of my 1960s and
‘70s childhood.
Only luck, I have concluded, spared me and my
friends the fate of these many victims here in New England and others like them
across America.