This Saturday, August 14, New York will close the “window of opportunities” to submit civil laws about sexual violence and harassment with an expired limitation period. This is reported by Voice of America (“Voice of America”, the Russian-speaking version has the status of the Ineagant’s media in Russia).
The state for two years canceled limitations of limitations for consideration of lawsuits. Residents could submit to the court to churches, hospitals, schools, camps, scout groups and other institutions, which, in their opinion, are responsible for crimes against personality, felling pedophiles and child abuse.
During this time, the courts received more than nine thousand complaints. They touched the priests, teachers and ruined four Roman Catholic dioceses. Some citizens got a chance to attract their long-standing offenders.
So, 74-year-old Carol Dupre filed to the Catholic diocese in Rochester, stating that in the early 1960s the priest was backed when she was a teenager. “Ironically, this was a very healing experience for me at a personal level,” the woman explained.
As the portal emphasizes, it is not planning to extend such a “window of opportunities” the authorities, and citizens will lose their rights to apply to the court for expired.
In March in France, the Independent Commission on Sexual Violence in the Church (CIASE) counted about 10 thousand cases of violence against children. Thousands of minors became victims of pedophile priests since 1950. The commission of 6.5 thousand people who agreed to testify, as well as those who refused to talk about what happened, and those who had already died.