Connecticut court upholds $1 million award in priest sex abuse case

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US | Fri Jun 26, 2015 7:18pm EDT

Connecticut court upholds $1 million award in priest sex abuse case

MILFORD, CONN | BY RICHARD WEIZEL

The Connecticut Supreme Court on Friday upheld a $1 million jury award to a man who said he was sexually abused by a priest in the Archdiocese of Hartford.

The unanimous ruling, which also upheld a 2002 state law that expanded the statute of limitations for sex abuse claims, was handed down on behalf of the man, identified in court records as Jacob Doe, who brought legal action against the archdiocese in 2008.

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A Waterbury Superior Court jury found in 2012 the archdiocese was "reckless and negligent" for allowing Ferguson to work with children in 1981 at St. Mary's after he had received treatment for abusing other boys.

The archdiocese appealed, saying there was insufficient evidence of negligence and recklessness, and that retroactive use of the 2002 state law expanding the statute of limitations for such cases violated due process rights.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/26/us-church-abuse-connecticut-idUSKBN0P62QX20150626

[AtheistCrusader]

1. Hmm.

Due process is a delicate thing. Maybe better to just remove all statute of limitations altogether.