Reporting on the St. Joseph's Orphanage abuse: 'It just cried out for attention'

If the survivors of child abuse at St. Joseph's Orphanage in Burlington had emerged in 2018 instead of in the mid-1990s, their stories might well have been more believed, their treatment more just. That's the conclusion of two reporters who have covered the story extensively: BuzzFeed News reporter Christine Kenneally, whose "The Ghosts of the Orphanage" published recently, and longtime former Burlington Free Press reporter Sam Hemingway, who told many survivors' stories originally starting a quarter-century ago.

https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2018/09/07/orphanage-abuse-buzzfeed-news-and-burlington-free-press-reporters-discuss-st-josephs-cases/1214024002/