GEORGIA
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By Andrew Davis
Published: July 25, 2016
It was a crowning moment for the director, producers and actors. February 2016, “Spotlight” wins the Academy Award for Best Picture.
Behind the movie is the story of the victims, abused by men they trusted, their priests.
One of those victims now lives in Savannah.
Michael Corbett was a teenager, just 17, and thinking about becoming a priest himself.
Those thoughts, and his life was changed forever by Father Robert Gale in a Boston rectory back in 1993.
“He went to the bedroom and stripped down to his underwear,” explained Corbett. “But did it so he was standing right in front of me the whole time.”
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