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Film festival to premiere clergy sex abuse documentary partly based on Guardian reporting
God As My Witness details priest’s relationship with teen who later killed himself and other abuse allegations
The producer of the 82-minute film is Michael Brandner Sr, who in 2018 discovered a pile of what were essentially love letters to his younger brother, Scot, from a Roman Catholic priest named Brian Highfill. In a recorded phone call between the men, Aymond told Brandner that the letters were likely grooming material but “weren’t explicit enough” to warrant Highfill’s inclusion on a list released by the archdiocese that identified clergymen faced with substantial allegations of child molestation. God As My Witness in part recounts the experiences of Brandner’s family with Highfill, who died in 2021, and a number of people who endured being sexually molested as children by clergymen while growing up in the Catholic church in New Orleans.
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