Paul Bond at the Hollywood Reporter offers a piece on a film being made about Philadelphia abortion doctor and murderer Kermit Gosnell.
An independent filmmaker says he will tackle the gruesome and controversial case of Dr. Kermit Gosnell, a Philadelphia abortion doctor serving life in prison after multiple convictions on first-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter.
Gosnell's crimes allegedly occurred over the course of decades. A grand jury said he kept severed feet of late-term fetuses in display jars; killed newborns with scissors to the backs of their necks; kept fetal remains in refrigerators next to employee lunches; joked about killing viable fetuses; and kept his patients bleeding and writhing in pain for hours. Anti-abortion advocates charged that mainstream media ignored the trial and its grisly details.
The filmmaker, Phelim McAleer, says he will explore not only Gosnell's actions -- he calls Gosnell "America's biggest serial killer" -- but also what he says is the bureaucratic and media inattention that allowed them to continue until his arrest in 2011.
... "It's a graphic story," says McAleer. "Gosnell is a fascinating monster; a hoarder, mad man and megalomaniac. He's a black man who is racist against blacks and Hispanics. He's a real-life Hannibal Lecter. It’s an omission that Hollywood is ignoring the biggest serial killer in American history, and we’re going to fill that gap."
You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/abortion-doctor-kermit-gosnell-eyed-691963
You can also read an earlier post on Gosnell via the below link:
http://www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2013/05/hell-can-wait-convicted-baby-murderer.html
This is a horror-story that I choose not to revisit. I do worry about the "message" that the film's producer(s) will put forward. Let the evil doctor simply rot in prison (now) and hell (later).
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