In 2018, Talbot was guilty of serious sexual aggression and illicit sexual contact after being accused of abusing a nine-year-old boy in a Maine church in the 1990s. He was sentenced to three years in prison
Former Catholic priest James Talbot, sentenced to minors sexual abuse in the US states of Maine and Massachusetts, and one of the figures exposed by the investigation that inspired the film Spotlight, died at age 87.
Talbot, a former member of the Jesus Company, was on a list released by the religious order in the Northeast of the United States with names of clerics that were the subject of credible accusations of sexual abuse of minors.
According to a Jesuit spokesman, Mike Gabriele, Talbot died on February 28 at a palliative care center in St. Louis, Missouri.
The former priest was one of the boston globe journalistic investigation on sexual abuse by members of the Catholic Church, a work that received the Pulitzer award in 2003 and served as the basis for the best film winner Spotlight in 2016.
The investigation revealed the systemic dimension of abuse and its covering by the ecclesiastical hierarchy. The province uses East Jesuit did not comment on Talbot’s death.
In 2018, Talbot declared himself guilty of severe sexual aggression and illicit sexual contact after being accused of abusing a nine-year-old boy in a Maine church in the 1990s. He was sentenced to three years in prison.
Prior to that, he had already served a sentence of six years in prison for violation and sexual assaults to two students in Boston, and also resolved extrajudicially processed by more than a dozen victims.
Talbot was a teacher and sports coach at Boston College High School between 1972 and 1980, and was later transferred to Maine, where he taught at Cheverus High School in Portland until 1998.
