A state bill cleared a key Senate committee Friday to give more survivors of child sexual abuse the legal right to sue the church and other institutions complicit in the crimes.
State lawmakers are closer to settle the terms of their proposal to give more survivors of child sexual abuse the opportunity to sue the Catholic Church and other institutions complicit in the crimes.
With an order Friday from the courts, Marylanders are bracing for the release of an investigation into the history of child sexual abuse within the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
In a letter circulated Thursday, the Attorney General's Office concluded with the strongest words yet that it could defend a vote by lawmakers to repeal immunity given to the church and other institutions against child sex abuse lawsuits.
A federal judge in Baltimore dismissed the charges, but not before he reproached A. Scott Bolden for spouting the same rhetoric that has made hostility the norm in federal politics.
With the statute of repose, Maryland legislators granted the Catholic Church sweeping immunity from lawsuits — a constitutional protection they perhaps can’t take back.
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