SUDBURY (CANADA)
Sudbury.com
July 17, 2019
He has been dead for more than five years, but when a convicted pedophile priest makes a sudden appearance in a documentary about his crimes, it’s like a bolt of lightning.
By now, most people in Sudbury are familiar with the crimes of Fr. William Hodgson Marshall, a priest who molested young boys at St. Charles College in the late 1960s and early 1970s before moving on to prey on more children in other places.
The public has never heard Marshall directly talking about his crimes. A new TVO documentary entitled ‘PREY’ changes that, showing him for the first time responding to questions from the lawyer representing his victims. PREY – a pun on pray – is playing at Cinefest this year.
Director Matt Gallagher’s film focuses on the 2018 lawsuit by Rod McLeod, one of Marshall’s victims in Sudbury who was awarded $2.57 million (https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/victim-of-abuse-by-sudbury-priest-awarded-25m-907564) for the abuse he suffered – and for the Basilian Fathers of Toronto for allowing it to continue.
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