Unrepentant
Reveal
The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
4.7 • 8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Despite revelations of clergy sex abuse and promises of transparency, a prominent Jesuit university does little to punish priests who cross the line.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal. |
| 0:09.3 | I'm Al Letson. |
| 0:11.6 | Today we're bringing you the latest chapter in a story we started telling you about a year |
| 0:16.0 | and a half ago. |
| 0:17.0 | It's about Jesuit priests, who for decades abused young people in Alaska native villages |
| 0:23.0 | and on Indian reservations in the Pacific Northwest. |
| 0:26.8 | The Jesuits are an order of the Catholic Church and in our original story we told you about |
| 0:31.7 | a survivor, LC Boudreau. |
| 0:34.4 | She was one of the first Alaska native women to speak publicly about her abuse nearly |
| 0:38.7 | 20 years ago. |
| 0:40.2 | We were like the sheep and they're the shepherd and they're not responding to their flock |
| 0:47.4 | in a responsible way. |
| 0:49.7 | I became like a liability to them. |
| 0:53.6 | When we learned about LC's abuser, a Jesuit priest named James Poole, who is deposed as |
| 0:58.4 | a part of a lawsuit in 2005. |
| 1:01.2 | I thought I was bringing love into the life of other persons. |
| 1:07.0 | By engaging in sexual acts with them? |
| 1:10.0 | By being intimate. |
| 1:11.0 | And what's your definition of intimacy? |
| 1:13.8 | Everything short of intercourse. |
| 1:19.0 | James Poole was one of about a hundred abuse of Jesuits we found, but none were ever |
| 1:24.1 | prosecuted. |
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