![]() ![]() Going public “was a big struggle for him because he kept it to himself for a long time,” said Mr. His speaking out and coming forward has made us realize the shame isn’t ours.” Crowley was “the most resilient person I’ve ever met. ![]() He made me think, ‘Why would I have any shame?’ ” “Meeting Joe and forming a friendship with him led to me to do a story in The Providence Journal,” Scanlan said. Scanlan, who is depicted in the movie under a pseudonym, had remained an anonymous survivor through Talbot’s trial and conviction. ![]() Talbot, a former teacher and athletic coach at Boston College High School. On that day he met Jim Scanlan, another survivor, who had been abused by the Rev. Crowley first saw “Spotlight” in the fall of 2015, a few weeks before its premiere, at a special screening the filmmakers arranged for survivors. His decision to let his name and experiences become part of the public conversation about the scandal “paved the way for so many of us to come forward,” Ann Hagan Webb, Rhode Island representative of SNAP and formerly the organization’s New England co-coordinator, wrote in an e-mail. Crowley, who was one of the first survivors of clergy sexual abuse to come forward publicly to the Globe, initially was granted anonymity by Spotlight team reporters because of the stigma associated with sex abuse. ![]()
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