"The Whistleblower," which makes one of the victims a crucial character and uses graphic scenes of abuse, implicates the United Nations, the State Department, private contractors and nongovernmental organizations in the sex trade.
As it happens, one the the alleged murderers, Cherif Houachi, was convicted of terrorist activities in 2008, and during his trial attributed his radicalisation to scenes of abuse at Abu Ghraib, the American military prison in Iraq.
The report, based on interviews with patients and medical workers, describes grisly scenes of abuse in at least four hospitals in three cities, including reports of wounded men tortured by security forces at their bedsides.
It is more than three years since the nation was shocked by sickening, secretly filmed scenes of abuse of people with learning disabilities at a private hospital near Bristol called Winterbourne View.
I strong-armed my partner into watching press screeners of the show with me; when he winced at scenes of abuse and suffering, I kept promising that the feminist revolution was coming.
There are many horribly painful scenes of abuse, ploddingly spliced together, and the whole movie is relentlessly shallow, wearyingly incurious, unable or unwilling to investigate its characters' inner lives.
As filming went on, we held further auditions: we cast an actor to play Tom Cruise, then took a small band of young players through a Scientology boot camp, with Rathbun as drill sergeant, before ambitiously recreating the scenes of abuse that Rathbun and others have said took place behind closed doors in the upper echelons of Scientology.
But then there are the creepy flashbacks, childhood scenes of abuse and imaginary conversations with his vicious momma which are right out of the slasher text-book and whose underlying psychology is straight from the head-doctor epilogue that closes Hitchcock's Psycho.
