Posted on 04/11/2010 10:26:25 PM PDT by Eyes Unclouded
Edited on 04/12/2010 6:17:36 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Hartford, Connecticut (CNN) -- A bill in Connecticut's legislature that would remove the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse cases has sparked a fervent response from the state's Roman Catholic bishops, who released a letter to parishioners Saturday imploring them to oppose the measure. Under current Connecticut law, sexual abuse victims have 30 years past their 18th birthday to file a lawsuit.
On the one hand this would be abused (no pun) by lawyers dragging out false claims to extort the church.
On the other hand I don’t see how to give solace to people who were abused and the church hushed it up all those years back.
Talk about a few bad apples.
You have until you are 48 to make a claim? If you do not come forward before then what possible evidence will you have? I agree that this situation is BS and the Catholic church should have never let this happen.
These pervs should pay but part of me wants to say that you should not be able to civilly try the church after that amount of time.
This bill is about repealing a 30 year staute of limitations on sexual abuse. The question is a simple one, if a person is sexually abused does the passage of 30 years make make the sexual abuse OK? In my mind it does not and the perpetrator is equally guilty regardless of how much time has lapsed, that’s why I believe that such a crime should have no statute of limitations.
People who are molested as children can take years, even decades to come to terms with what has been done to them, if they ever do.
It is never too late to go after the bastards who perpetrated these crimes, and shame on the Catholic Church for attempting to stand in the way of those trying to get some form of justice meted out to an institution that has done nothing but protect its own interests since the scandals began.
If it was your daughter or son who was abused and they couldn’t talk about it until they were older, would you say, “Sorry Honey, too late to talk about it now.”
Interesting.
Try thinking instead of wildly emoting.
No. It makes it damned near impossible for an INNOCENT man to defend himself.
But what's a few papist scum in prison? Who cares if they're innocent or guilty ... the secularist jihad against Christianity is more important.
The facts don't matter, after all ... it's the seriousness of the charges that counts. Right, Dan?
We are supposed to be innocent until proven guilty.
I think the presumption of innocence stands.
I would want any accused man to get a jury trial if the DA found EVIDENCE that was compelling.
I assume he would get a fair trial.
I do not "assume". I certainly do not "assume" that anyone would get a fair trial on any charge, particularly 30 years after the alleged offense.
I have served on several juries. (Ain't I the lucky one?) That experience has made me a huge fan of "statutes of limitations".
No one is accused in this article.
Its about the statute of limitations.
Try thinking instead of wildly emoting.
The bishops haven’t had to answer for their complicity yet, maybe they’re afraid that that the wheels of justice are going to grind a little too fine for their taste.
Each child molesting priest and those who protect them will have an eternity to ponder their actions. Hell is too good for the bastards and the bishops who protect them...
I have just one quetion - does this proposed law also include all the kids who are still being abused in the public school systems of the USA and other kids who are molested in Protestant denominations?
As a Catholic I am so disgusted with the entire subject that it has come to this:
1. That so many children - mostly teens - were molested and nothing was done abuot it for so long.
2. That so many perverted men were allowed into the seminaries to begin with, and then it was covered up.
3. That the church has taken rigorous actions to prevent this from continuing, yet never gets any credit for cleaning up its act by the bigoted press corps.
4. That recognition that most of these cases go back 30-40 years, and therefore the implicated priests have already been identified as well as their superiors.
5. That an idiotic lack of understanding on the church’s hierarchy serves anti-Catholic bigots to contiuously attack Pope BXVI for things he was not responsible for.
6. Monasteries and their members are not directly under the authority of bishops, and hence the Vatican!! They are first under the authority of the Abbot.
That’s my rant for the day.
DUH ... that's what I said. Try reading.
It's actually about removing the statute of limitations, a move I oppose in general BECAUSE it opens the door to accusations which cannot be adequately defended.
It always helps to think more than one step ahead.
Yes I agree, but at the same time hate the thought of some molesters going away unpunished. I guess they will get theirs in the next life.
If only we had a courts we could trust and a properly educated citizenry (or a church willing to stand up to this behavior from day one). Sad sign of the times.
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