most of society, the children that were sexually abused by the Catholic priests did take the horrific situations they were forced to endure and perceive them as an injurious experience because of the mental and emotional toll it had on them. It is in this stage that the survivors were able to first gain control over the Catholic church because of the appalling testimonies they revealed. Secondly, blaming occurs when, “a person attributes an injury to the fault of another individual or social entity,” and in which a PIE becomes a grievance (Felstiner, Abel, and Sarat, 1980). In the movie Spotlight, blaming is the stage in which Phil Saviano, Joe, Patrick, and the other seventy-nine survivors Mitchell Garabedian represents, speak of the sexual abuse the priests, people they were encouraged to trust…show more content… In one scene, Marty Baron, one of the editors of the Boston Globe, tells the Spotlight team to, “show me the church manipulated the system, so these guys wouldn’t have to face charges, show me they put those same priests back into the parishes time and time again,” to show him that this corruption initiated from the elite and traveled down (Sugar, Rocklin, Faust, and Bederman, 2015). The systemic corruption Baron seeks can be found in the way the Catholic church prefers to operate with private mediation instead of taking the allegation against them to court. Owen Fiss (Menkel-Meadow, 2011) discusses in “Against Settlement” that alternative dispute resolutions, specifically settlements, enforce an imbalance of power between a plaintiff and defendant because one party is usually a minority while the other is a wealthy corporation or organization. In the film, settlements sustained the injuries Phil Saviano, Joe, Patrick, and the other seventy-nine survivors were forced to endure. It ignored their
