Items14The creator’s order
  1. 1States of FearStates of FearMary Raftery's three-part RTÉ documentary series, 1999 Raftery brought the abuse of children in Ireland's industrial and reformatory schools, run by religious orders, to a prime-time audience, through the testimony of people who had grown up in them. On May 11, 1999, before the final episode…0
  2. 2Sexual abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of BostonSexual abuse scandal in the Archdiocese of BostonThe Boston Globe Spotlight Team's investigation, from January 6, 2002 The first story showed that the Archdiocese of Boston had known about a priest's abuse and kept moving him between parishes. It rested on church documents a judge had ordered unsealed, which is why the denials could not hold.…0
  3. 3Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandalRotherham child sexual exploitation scandalAndrew Norfolk's reporting for The Times, from January 2011 Norfolk investigated the grooming and sexual exploitation of children for years, and within days of one of his Rotherham stories the council ordered an independent inquiry. When Alexis Jay reported in 2014, she found that at least 1,400…0
  4. 4Penn State child sex abuse scandalPenn State child sex abuse scandalSara Ganim's reporting for The Patriot-News, from March 2011 Ganim, then a 24-year-old police and courts reporter, broke the news that a grand jury was investigating Jerry Sandusky, months before charges made the case national. It belongs here for what it revealed about a university rather than a…0
  5. 5Boy Scouts of America sex abuse casesBoy Scouts of America sex abuse casesThe Los Angeles Times investigation of the Boy Scouts' "perversion files," 2012 For decades the Boy Scouts kept a confidential blacklist of men expelled over suspected abuse, locked in filing cabinets at headquarters, and fought in court to keep it private. The Times examined more than 1,200 of…0
  6. 6Joanne McCarthy (journalist)Joanne McCarthy (journalist)Joanne McCarthy's reporting and the Shine the Light campaign, Newcastle Herald McCarthy covered the sexual abuse of children, particularly in the Catholic Church, in Newcastle and the Hunter Valley, and the Herald turned that reporting into a public campaign for a royal commission. Julia Gillard…0
  7. 7Exposure (British TV series)Exposure (British TV series)"Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile," ITV, October 3, 2012 Mark Williams-Thomas built the documentary on interviews with women who said Savile abused them, and it aired after the BBC's own Newsnight had shelved a segment on similar allegations, with the BBC saying its story could not be…0
  8. 8Bon Secours Mother and Baby HomeBon Secours Mother and Baby HomeCatherine Corless's research and Alison O'Reilly's Mail on Sunday reporting, 2014 Corless, a local historian, obtained death records showing that 796 babies and children had died at the Tuam home run by the Bon Secours Sisters, yet there were no burial records. When she brought her findings to…0
  9. 9The Boston GlobeThe Boston GlobeSpotlight's "Private schools, painful secrets," May 2016 Fourteen years after its church investigation, the Globe's Spotlight Team turned to New England's elite private schools and found that at least 67 had faced allegations since the early 1990s that staff sexually abused or harassed more than…0
  10. 10Los Angeles TimesLos Angeles TimesThe Los Angeles Times investigation of USC gynecologist George Tyndall, May 2018 Harriet Ryan, Matt Hamilton and Paul Pringle revealed that the University of Southern California had let a campus gynecologist keep treating students for years despite repeated complaints about his behavior with young…0