Portland, Maine – James Talbot, a former Catholic priest convicted of sexually assaulting children in Maine and Massachusetts after he was exposed by the investigation that led to the film “Spotlight”, has died. He was 87 years old.
Talbot, a former Jesuit, appeared in a list provided by the religious order of the northeast Jesuits who faced credible accusations of sexual abuse of a minor. Talbot died on February 28 at a Hospicio center in St. Louis, said Mike Gabriele, spokesman for Jesuits USA East.
Talbot was one of the issues of an investigation into the sexual abuse of the Boston Globe priest who won a Pulitzer Award in 2003 and was adapted to the film “Spotlight” of 2015. The investigation revealed generalized sexual abuse and cover -up of that abuse, within the Catholic Church. The Jesuits of the United States. East did not offer a comment on the death of Talbot.
He begged him guilty In 2018, a gross sexual assault and illegal sexual contact after the positions that he sexually abused a 9 -year -old boy in a church in Maine in the 1990s. He was ordered to serve three years in prison for that sentence.
Before Maine’s conviction, Talbot spent six years in prison after declaring himself guilty of sexually violating and sexually assaulting two students in Boston. He has established demands with more than a dozen victims in addition to the convictions.
Talbot was a former teacher and athletics coach at Boston College High School from 1972 to 1980 who later transferred to Maine. He was in Cheverus High School in Portland, Maine, until 1998.
The former Boston College High School Jim Scanlan student, 63, reported Talbot’s abuse in Massachusetts. Associated Press generally does not use the names of victims of sexual aggression without their consent, which Scanlan provided. His reports led to criminal charges against Talbot.
Scanlan said he has communicated with other survivors of the abuse of Talbot. He said he holds people in positions of power within the Church for responsible for allowing Talbot to continue committing abuse for many years.
Scanlan said he has tried to move from his own anger to Talbot, but it is a long process.
“The opposite of love is not hate, it is indifference,” said Scanlan. “Maybe I parked it a long time ago, I decided that I couldn’t change what happened.”
The US Jesuits, said that Talbot had been residing at the Vianney Renewal Center in Dittmer, Missouri, before entering Hospice Care. The center cares about sexually abusive priests, in addition to providing other medical care services.
