this may be heavy for survivors
Report: LA archdiocese to negotiate more than 100 abuse claims 1/1/03 Los Angeles AP - "A new law that took effect Wednesday gives alleged victims of priestly sexual abuse more time to sue, but Southern California dioceses have won a reprieve in more than 100 potential cases. Lawyers for alleged victims of priests in Los Angeles and Orange counties agreed Tuesday to try to mediate claims instead of taking them immediately to court, said attorney Katherine Kay Freberg, who represents nearly 80 alleged victims. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles and the Diocese of Orange will be given about 90 days to reach out-of-court settlements, attorneys said." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2003/01/01/state0639EST0023.DTL
Church protects pedophiles, victim charges in lawsuit By Janet Burkitt 1/23/02 "A California woman who was sexually abused as a child by a leader of a Jehovah's Witnesses church in Eastern Washington filed a civil lawsuit yesterday against the congregation as well as the church's national organization, alleging they protect pedophiles. In the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Spokane, attorneys for the 23-year-old woman claim the church mishandled her complaints that she was sexually abused by a leader of the Othello Spanish Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Adams County from the time she was 4 years old until her family moved to Sacramento when she was 11. Elders at her California congregation notified an elder at the Othello church when she told them of the abuse, but they discouraged her from calling police, the suit says." http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/134394417_jehovah23m.html
Suit Charges Church Coverup Kathleen Burge 1/1/03 "A 14-year-old Dorchester girl and her parents are suing the Jehovah's Witnesses, arguing that the religious group covered up the girl's sexual abuse by a Bible study leader and discouraged her parents from reporting the abuse to police or prosecutors. The girl, allegedly molested in her house by the son of a church elder from the Columbus Park Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses in Dorchester... her mother says that while church leaders coddled her daughter's abuser, they socially ostracized her for notifying law enforcement authorities and pressing criminal charges, according to court papers....Jehovah's Witnesses, who claim 1 million followers in the United States and 6 million worldwide." http://www.boston.com/
both from L Moss Sharman Flood of suits on abuse seen in California By Tatsha Robertson 1/1/03 "A new California law suspending the statute of limitations on child sexual abuse crimes takes effect today, and attorneys and church officials expect it to spark hundreds of new lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Los Angeles and a dozen other dioceses across the state....The new law lifts the statute of limitations for one year and specifically allows alleged victims to sue institutions that employed and protected alleged abusers.... Attorneys working with alleged victims in California said they know of more than 200 new cases that will be filed. Cases pursued in anticipation of the new law, which was signed in July, have already resulted in the arrests or removal of two dozen Catholic priests in the state, according to victims' advocates....Attorneys working with alleged victims in California said they know of more than 200 new cases that will be filed. Cases pursued in anticipation of the new law, which was signed in July, have already resulted in the arrests or removal of two dozen Catholic priests in the state, according to victims' advocates. http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/001/nation/Flood_of_suits_on_abuse_seen_in_California+.shtml
Molester priest Paquin cuts deal to testify in abuse civil lawsuits by Tom Mashberg 1/1/03 "A North Shore priest whose seduction and sexual abuse of teen boys spans four decades pleaded guilty yesterday to three counts of oral rape of a child and received a minimum 12-year term after promising to testify in civil cases against the Archdiocese of Boston....Attorney Jeffrey A. Newman of Marblehead, who represents 17 alleged Paquin victims..." http://www2.bostonherald.com/news/local_regional/perv01012003.htm
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