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Spotlight falls on Jalisco church abuse cover-ups

The double Oscar award-winning drama “Spotlight” has reignited debate about Catholic Church child abuse cover-ups.

The film tells the story of the Boston Globe journalists who uncovered a church plot that allowed priests to go unpunished for sexual crimes against children. 

Accepting the award, producer Michael Sugar said he hoped the film’s message of complete intolerance towards institutional abuse – would “resonate all the way to the Vatican.”

Against this backdrop, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) announced that 56 victims had denounced abuse in Jalisco. This is the highest number of any state in the country, representing 21 percent of the nationwide total.

Only three of these cases have made it to court, owing to the fact that the vast majority of victims were abused as children and only brought the abuse to the notice of authorities when they were adults. Of these three cases, only one priest was arrested and held in custody.

 

 

 

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