Disturbing but enlightening documentary which takes you into the mind of a sexual predator at the highest level: the Catholic priest. A must-see for anyone who is interested in how the Catholic church handles allegations of sexual abuse in the church and how the long- term effects of its victims. The documentary details just how deep the rabbit hole goes in the cover-up these heinous crimes in order protect the reputation of the Catholic church. This is a balanced, well-made documentary which includes both personal testimonies and courtroom depositions. You get a true insight into the psyche of both the victim and the predator, and you want to keep following the lives of these people past the conclusion. An excellent documentary if you can handle it!

It's a shocking insight into a world already known to be as disgusting and duplicitous as is laid bare in this documentary.Father O'Grady seems to fluctuate between the repentant child molester honestly searching for truth and forgiveness, and a subtle and controlling egotist who needs to be central to every facet of the emotional devastation in his wake.Although it may be impossible to come to this documentary as a 'neutral' observer it does feel forced along in some areas. The tone of the film is more interested in exposing the pain and disgusting acts than as a window into another world. An obvious attempt to appeal to the base emotions, and would have preferred more of a focus on the hypocrisy of child molestation within a Christian World view. However, where the film succeeds with tremendous impact is the complete access to the victim's struggle to find understanding, and the perpetrator's car crash he calls his life.

What a horrendous scandal, this is the very reason everyone needs to question their beliefs in ANY religion. When the power of those supposedly put on some sort of pedestal to assist and guide become evil filthy despots and abuse the power they think they have.I can understand the priest (to a point - he was obviously sick in the head) involved, he obviously needed some help be it castration or hanging.What revolts me most about all of this is the complicity that his elders had in covering up his abuse of children.These peers of the priest should have been peeled alive, given a bit of their own medicine like they did during the Inquisition.The really sad thing is, more and more and more of these cases of pedophilia and subsequent cover up keep emerging. When will people wake up to this disgusting sham. This is not religion, this is a power trip. Well done to the documentary makers for showing this.It just goes to show what happens when you stick a rotten apple in a barrel of apples long enough.Disgusting!

Woe to anyone who dares to lead a little one astray especially if you are supposed to represent God to that smaller-framed adult-in-progress! It would be better that a big rock (like an island, for example) be securely fastened to your feeble and frail little neck before your next swimming lesson than to sit before the Supreme Judges on High with those kinds of crimes against kids being exposed to the judicial illumination of an administrative system of universal law and order that is no respecter of persons (treats everyone with an equal degree of fairness and justice regardless of what title one may have had applied to them during their earthly sojourn). I once heard mercy defined as applied love but I would speculate that such an application would only be applicable if sincere repentance is detected and I would never presume to be capable of evaluating that kind of thing in another person regardless of how angry and upset I felt watching this film. I will admit that this movie was extremely difficult to watch all the way through to the end (but I did anyway) since unlike a lot of movies that provide a temporary escape from reality, this in-your-face presentation mercilessly thrusts you right smack dab in the middle of a part of reality that almost sounds unbelievable at first...until you witness firsthand the tear-stained faces of the victims and their families who have been permanently scarred by the painfully tragic circumstances of their youth involving priests who took advantage of their priestly positions of authority and traded their souls (the souls of the iniquity-embracing priests) for a few fleeting moments of forgettable nothingness.