Posted on 01/17/2020 6:47:17 PM PST by marshmallow
Contrasts with US bishops' fight to limit sex abuse suits
DETROIT (ChurchMilitant.com) - Mexican bishops are urging the nation's government to do away with the statute of limitations (SOL) for child sex abuse cases.
Their recommendation is in contrast to their brother bishops in the United States, who have spent more than $10.6 million in eight northeastern states to fight attempts to extend or eliminate the statute of limitations in such cases.
Mexican bishops recognize the problem with these laws. Rogelio Cabrera, president of the Mexican Bishops Conference told the press, "We want to ask in the name of the bishops of Mexico for there to be no expiration for this crime."
Mexico was home to one of the Church's most notorious sex offenders, Marcial Maciel Degollado, founder of the Legionaries of Christ. He abused young men — including his own sons — and had children with multiple wives.
In the United States, bishops have aggressively resisted SOL reform.
Motivated by sheer frustration, Philadelphia law firm Williams Cedar, which represents more than 300 cases of clerical sex abuse, joined forces with three other law firms and commissioned a study of how much Catholic bishops were spending lobbying against reform of SOL laws for sex abuse cases involving minors.
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Viva Los obispos de Mexico.
Not a good idea.
For people wanting to get back at someone they can just ‘remember’ something that never happened.
And this happens a lot. Much less being coached by a shrink or lawyer to come up with false memories.
There is plenty of literature about not only being able to make people believe things happened that never did. There are alsocarticles by docs discussing how just recalling a memory can corrupt it by either adding something that didn’t happen or removing something that did happen.
It’s not good news for people who don’t want others being accused of false charges. of course they never think it could ever happen to them so they’re all for it.
Agreed. Time might erase evidence
that may prove ones’ innocence
more so than guilt. Accusations can
be embelished or dimished.
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