Innocence Lost: It was a cult, part 2

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October 8, 2019
Marianne Combs - Reporter, Tom Crann - Host, Eric Ringham - Editor, Unknown - Interviewee, Jeanette Simmonds - Interviewee, Laura Stearns - Interviewee, Annie Enneking - Interviewee, Cordelia Anderson - Interviewee
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MPR’s Marianne Combs reports on how the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis is being forced to revisit a grim part of its past as it works to resolve lawsuits that charge it with failing to protect young people from sexual abuse.

Former Children's Theatre students describe a system of isolation and manipulation that preyed on the vulnerable and shamed them into silence. Combs aloso interviews a mental health professional about the signs of traumatic abuse.

This is the second in a two-part report.

Click link below for other report:

part 1: https://archive.mpr.org/stories/2019/10/07/innocence-lost-a-culture-of-abuse-part-1

Awarded:

2020 MNSPJ Page One Award, Journalist of the Year [Special] category

2020 MNSPJ Page One Radio Award, first place in Radio - Investigative category

2020 RTDNA Murrow Award, Radio - Large Market, Region 4 / Investigative Reporting

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