priest abuse Jesuit obituary James Talbot Spotlight.

James Talbot, a former Catholic priest convicted of sexually assaulting boys in Maine and Massachusetts after he was exposed by The Boston Globe, has died. He was 87. Talbot appeared on a list provided by the religious order of northeastern Jesuits who faced credible allegations of sexual abuse of a minor. Jesuits USA East confirmed on Friday that Talbot died on Feb. 28 at a hospice center in St. Louis. Talbot was one of the subjects of an investigation into priest sex abuse by The Globe’s Spotlight team that won a Pulitzer Prize in 2003. The reporting was later adapted into the movie “Spotlight.”