Filmmaker Amy Berg recounts a harrowing story of child abuse and how a serial child molester went free for the better part of two decades in this documentary. Oliver O’Grady was a Catholic priest who served in a number of parishes in Southern California during the 1970s and ’80s. O’Grady was also a habitual child molester who abused dozens of youngsters who were entrusted to his care, and while his superiors in the church were aware of O’Grady’s crimes as early as 1973, they opted to simply move him from one congregation to another rather than turn him in to authorities or strip him of his ordination.
The sexual abuse and pedophilia in the Catholic Church has been institutionalized for decades. You can watch the entire Deliver Us From Evil online.
As one of the pedophile priest victims, I saw Amy Berg’s film in 2006 and for the first time realized, “It did not have to happen.” Â Started City of Angels Blog in Jan 2007, now at http://cityofangels12.blogspot.com soon after. Â The whole truth about these crimes is still being kept secret by these thug bishops. Â
It’s been going on for many decades too. A nun in about 1870 went public about it and they tried to excommunicate her. Yes, that’s 1870, not 1970.