
Sexual Abuse In The Abbey
An RTS investigation traces allegations against nine priests tied to a single abbey, some still in active ministry, others now dead. Reporters interview survivors directly, including a woman who describes being assaulted at age 12 and who confronts her abuser on camera decades later. The film follows the reporting process itself: tracking down victims willing to speak, cross-checking their accounts against church records, and pressing diocesan officials on what they knew and when. Rather than treating the abuse as a series of isolated incidents, the investigation asks how an institution kept these men in positions of trust for so long, and what, if anything, has changed since. The interviews carry the weight of the film, unadorned by dramatic reenactment, letting survivors' testimony and the reporters' documentary evidence build the case scene by scene. It is a grim, procedural piece of journalism about institutional failure rather than a sensationalized account.