Posted on 04/13/2025 9:39:16 AM PDT by CFW
Talk about unintended consequences! In 2023, Maryland Democrats voted to stick it to the Catholic-Church by lifting the statute of limitations on suing for child sexual abuse after an investigative report of the Archdiocese of Baltimore showed over 600 children had been abused there since the 1940s.
Now, this might have been well intentioned, but it was also a clear attempt, and a successful one, to damage the Catholic Church in Maryland.
But while the lawmakers were busy high-fiving the destruction of those awful Catholics, they ended up stepping in their own trap.
Much to their chagrin, they had forgotten that there are a lot more evil public servants than evil Catholic priests.
Within days of the original law being cleared by the Maryland Supreme Court, thousands of sexual abuse cases were filed against the state of Maryland's juvenile justice system.
Will Smith, a Democrat, noted that lawmakers approved the 2023 Child Victims Act in response ‘to a long fight to have justice for victims of child sex abuse, where our prior framework barred some of those claims if you were above the age of 38.
‘But what we could never have anticipated was just the sheer volume of cases that ensued.'
They thought it was JUST the Catholic Church that was the problem. They had no clue that so many government employees might be hit with suits.
Smith estimates the settlements could be upwards of $4 billion, which is as much as the state's current yearly deficit.
And in that light, the legislature quickly wrote a new law and voted to limit their liability in the cases. (And I do mean quickly - it went from draft, to committee, to the floor in the state House and Senate, and to the governor's desk in two days — TWO DAYS.)
(Excerpt) Read more at notthebee.com ...
LOL
When it comes to these godless, communist libs, the jokes just write themselves... Most of these clowns belong in an asylum.
Maybe they can re-write the law and call it something catchy like the “Them Not Us” law. Do it for the children!!
The largest population of predators of children are in the pulbic education systems nationwide. The number dwarfs Catholic professionals.
And in that light, the legislature quickly wrote a new law and voted to limit their liability in the cases.
I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we begin by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes.” When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read “all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics.” When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty-to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy. (sic, on NPS website) — A. Lincoln.
https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/knownothingparty.htm
The Know-Nothings had their greatest support in Maryland and Louisiana — I’m guessing those were the states with the highest percent Catholic at the time.
“They forgot that laws are supposed to apply equally against all and were shocked when law suits were filed against the state.”
Equally? The lower caps only applied to the state.
Bills ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO BE PASSED SO QUICKLY.
There are built in time delays into the legislative process for a REASON.
There is many a bill that I have stopped about 1/2 way to 3/4 of the way through the legislative process.
When a bill is sped through like this, there is NO TIME for the public to read the bill and develop an opposition !
Children are far more likely to be abused by government school teachers than by Catholic priests.
Odd they weren’t aware of that.
And now you know why the Government is not interested in pursuing the Epstein case.
“How DARE they sue us?! We are Public Servants!”
Ahhh, there it is - my daily dose of “gut”, “gutting”, or “gutted”. It’s 2025’s “jab”.
This gotta be a lot about lawyers lining their pockets with taxpayer dollars.
Yup
And now that they have kicked almost all normal men out, the large majority of them are women and/or alphabet people.
“they left the original law in place and just limited liability for the state?”
I was wondering the same thing.
For socialists the state never does anything wrong.
Also socialists immediately cover up things that embarrass it and show its hypocrisy and ineptness.
If we had a competently functioning Supreme Court, they would not be able to rewrite the law to protect themselves.
They didn’t know because they only knew the narrative.
There’s a reason many of us refer to the Maryland Legislature as the General Asylum.
But, when they lose they’ll just raise taxes.
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