Their findings, based on a six-month campaign by the 'Spotlight' investigative team, showed that hundreds of children in Boston had been abused by Catholic priests, and that this horrific pattern of behaviour had been known - and ignored - by the Catholic Church. On 31 January 2002, the Boston Globe published a report that sent shockwaves around the world. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. The shooting was captured on a surveillance camera and Harrison was arrested soon afterward.THE BOOK WHICH INSPIRED SPOTLIGHT, 2016 WINNER OF THE BEST PICTURE OSCAR AND THE BEST SCREENPLAY OSCARThis is the true story of how a small group of courageous journalists uncovered child abuse on a vast scale - and held the Catholic Church to account.īetrayal is a ground-breaking work of investigative journalism, now brought brilliantly to life on the screen in the major new movie Spotlight. Harrison met up with the student on March 3, 2015, and shot him in the back of the head at point blank range. Harrison came to believe that one of the students distributing drugs was withholding money from him, no longer wished to sell drugs, and might go to the police, prosecutors said. Prosecutors said Harrison, who was hired as dean in 2015, recruited students into the gang and directed them to sell marijuana and other drugs for him.
Harrison was sentenced to up to 26 years in that case. Harrison is already serving time in state prison after a 2018 conviction for attempting to kill a student at the school. Harrison was the architect of ruin for an entire generation of promising young lives,” Massachusetts US Attorney Rachael S. As the academic dean at a Boston Public high school he lured and manipulated teenagers into a criminal enterprise that specialized in street terrorism. Harrison was in a position of trust, but was actually a dangerous predator. “The level of betrayal and dishonesty exhibited here is astonishing.
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