Roman Catholic Sex Abuse Cases/Archive 4 - Popular Culture

Popular Culture

See also: Media coverage of Catholic sex abuse cases

Many popular culture representations have been made of the sex abuse of children cases. Some are first person like Sex crimes and the Vatican (2006) is a documentary film by Colm O'Gorman, who was raped by a Catholic priest in the diocese of Ferns in County Wexford in Ireland when he was 14 years old.

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