More Will Come

Last year, I wrote about the Boston sex scandal, which began in 2002.  However, despite the sex abuse policies that were implemented after 2002, the Archdiocese of Boston continues to get allegations of sex abuse.  According to the Boston Globe dated January 5, 2017, hundreds of alleged victims from around the world still continue to come forward claiming they were sexually abused in the State of Massachusetts.  Even after 15 years, the sexual allegations continue to come.  The only difference is that these new wave of sexual allegations are coming from younger people in their 20s and 30s.  

August 15, 2019 was the deadline for filing any sexual abuse against the Archdiocese.  Some people are probably breathing a sigh of relief that the deadline is over.  According to the Pacific Daily News, there are 272 claims of sexual abuse filed against the Archdiocese by the August 15th deadline.  However, that is not the end.  According to the Pacific Daily News:

Judge Bordallo during Friday's hearing, said since the statute of limitations was lifted, lawsuits could still be filed despite the Aug. 15 deadline, which he and Tydingco-Gatewood said applies only to the archdiocese's bankruptcy case and not to the other defendents. 

Clergy sex abuse claims can still be filed against the archdiocese, but new cases won't be included in the settlement that the church is currently working on, attorneys said. 

Any NEW cases will not involve the settlement that is currently in the process.  Will it involve future settlements?  I would assume that there would be new settlements for any new cases otherwise why even bother filing a lawsuit against the Archdiocese to begin with.  

As I said since the beginning, the lifting of the statutes of limitations is an unjust law.  It only creates new victims....in this case the Catholic faithful who have to pay for these lawsuits.  This law does not allow for the investigations of the child sex abuse allegations; therefore, we cannot know for certain whether the allegations are truthful or false.  Many of these allegations are also against dead priests, who cannot defend themselves.  There are people out there who are out to defraud the Catholic Church despite that it is a mortal sin.  After all, we now live in times when some people have no shame in stealing from the Church (See story here).   

Also, remember that it was the Junglewatch Nation, Laity Forward Movement, CCOG and Silent No More who supported and worked for the passage of this unjust law.