US EditionConvicted Former Catholic Priest Exposed by Spotlight Investigation Dies at 87
- James Talbot, a former Jesuit priest, passed away on February 28, 2025, while receiving care at a hospice facility located in St. Louis, Missouri.
- Talbot’s death followed convictions and lawsuits linked to his sexual assaults on boys in Massachusetts and Maine during the 1990s, exposed by the Boston Globe’s Spotlight investigation.
- In 2018, he admitted to sexually assaulting a 9-year-old boy and received a three-year prison sentence, having previously served six years behind bars for abusing two students in Boston.
- Talbot reached financial agreements with over a dozen victims, and Jesuits USA East reported that he was living at the Vianney Renewal Center, which provides care for priests with past abuse allegations, before he entered hospice care.
- Survivor Jim Scanlan, a former student abused by Talbot, said he holds church leaders accountable for enabling the abuse and described moving on from anger as a long process, stating, "The opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.
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PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — James Talbot, a former Catholic priest convicted of sexually assaulting children in Maine and Massachusetts after being exposed by the investigation highlighted in the film "Spotlight," has died. He was 87.
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