A former reporter is haunted by the story he didn't pursue four decades ago.
I always knew that watching “Spotlight”
was going to be difficult for me, so I kept putting it off. Finally,
with my wife out of town last week, I sprawled on the family-room floor
with my two big dogs and steeled myself to view the Oscar-winning
film about the investigation of sexual abuse in Boston’s Catholic
Church. I was glad Patricia was away. I didn’t want her to see my tears.As the next two hours crawled by, I was consumed by three emotions: admiration for the Boston Globe’s investigative team, pride in the journalism profession I have labored in for more than four decades — and guilt.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/04/08/i-got-an-early-tip-about-a-priests-sexual-abuse-and-i-sat-on-it/