KATC’s The List receives Regional Emmy nominations
LAFAYETTE (LA)
KATC News
Oct. 22, 2019
KATC’s news team has received two Suncoast Regional Emmy Award nominations for their programs focusing on the accusations of sexual abuse in the Diocese of Lafayette.
The nominations, organized by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, were announced Monday.
In a half-hour special report, KATC-TV exposed a long-kept secret in the Diocese of Lafayette: The List of priests who faced credible accusations of sexual abuse involving children.
In the 1980s, the diocese was home to the first reported case of clergy sex abuse in the country. The scandal persisted in this devoutly Catholic region for decades and the diocese eventually acknowledged that 15 priests were credibly accused. Over the years abuse survivors called for the 15 names to be made public, yet the diocese refused. As recently as 2014 a former bishop said he saw “no purpose” in releasing the…
