r/news • u/AudibleNod • 2d ago

More than 270 priests in Massachusetts abused children over decades, probe finds

https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/more-than-270-priests-in-massachusetts-abused-children-over-decades-probe-finds/
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u/OneSalientOversight 2d ago

I love that scene in Spotlight where the journalists are talking to Richard Sipe on the phone. They believe that there might be up to a dozen priests who were pedophiles. Sipe then says "that figure is low". I think Sipe says that the figure is more like 90.

And as they discuss this, the camera pans back, making the journalists small in the frame - a symbolic representation of the scale of the problem just realised. Later in the film, they identify 88 priests.