The Longtime Advocates Behind 'Spotlight'

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November 04, 2015

The Rev. Tom Doyle addresses a crowd at the Voice of the Faithful national conference, in Boston in 2002. (Steven Senne/AP)

Part two of our "Spotlight" series, in advance of the film's release Friday.

The film "Spotlight" tells a story that broke in 2002, but started years earlier. Before the Spotlight team investigated allegations of clergy sexual abuse, others — like attorney Mitchell Garabedian and Father Thomas Doyle — were already trying to get justice for the victims.

Guest

Mitchell Garabedian, longtime attorney for victims of clergy abuse.

Tom Doyle, priest and advocate for clergy sex abuse victims.

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"In 2002, an investigation by The Boston Globe’s Spotlight team revealed widespread sexual abuse that had long remained concealed within the Catholic Church."

The Boston Globe: Church Allowed Abuse By Priest For Years

"Since the mid-1990s, more than 130 people have come forward with horrific childhood tales about how former priest John J. Geoghan allegedly fondled or raped them during a three-decade spree through a half-dozen Greater Boston parishes.Almost always, his victims were grammar school boys. One was just 4 years old.Then came last July’s disclosure that Cardinal Bernard F. Law knew about Geoghan’s problems in 1984, Law’s first year in Boston, yet approved his transfer to St. Julia’s parish in Weston. Wilson D. Rogers Jr., the cardinal’s attorney, defended the move last summer, saying the archdiocese had medical assurances that each Geoghan reassignment was “appropriate and safe.”

This segment aired on November 4, 2015.