ALASKA
KTUU
[with video]
By MJ Thim / KTUU
ANCHORAGE –
A new movie called “Spotlight” is literally putting the spot light on clergy sexual abuse.
It covers the 2002 Boston Archdiocese sexual abuse scandal but the issue impacts people all the country, including here in Alaska.
Trevor Storrs, Executive Director with the Alaska Childrens Trust, and Elsie Boudreau, a clergy sexual abuse survivor, talked about it on Monday’s Morning Edition.
“The movie looks at the history,” Storrs said. “That concept of breaking silence.”
Storrs said the most powerful line in the movie is about the saying ‘it takes a village to raise a child.’
“It takes a village to abuse a child,” he said. “If we all stay quite and ignore the signs, it can happen. We can break the cycle by breaking the silence.”
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