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Wexford child sex-abuse listed in new film 'Spotlight'
By David Tucker
Wexford is listed among the world's high-profile places of child sexual abuse in the Oscar-nominated film 'Spotlight ' now showing in the Omniplex Cinema in Drinagh. The film features the Pulitzer prize-winning investigation by Boston Globe journalists in the USA in 2001 into the cover-up by the Catholic Church there of the cases of 87 priests accused of child sexual abuse. Their investigation led to the resignation of Cardinal Law of the Archdiocese of Boston. Simon Kennedy, then a solicitor in New Ross, who advised many of County Wexford's abuse victims, visited Boston at the time and met some of the lawyers who are now represented in the film. Amongst those mentioned in the film were former priest and Canon Law expert,Tom Doyle with whom he consulted. An Omniplex representative said that only a handful of people have seen the film since it was first screened there at the weekend.
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