At least one new lawsuit has been filed against the Diocese of Lafayette seeking damages from alleged sexual abuse by a priest as the state Supreme Court ruled June 12 to give abuse survivors three additional years to file lawsuits no matter how long ago the abuse occurred.
A St. Martin Parish resident, referred to by the initials C.V. in court records, filed a lawsuit June 11, the eve of the Supreme Court decision, suing the Diocese of Lafayette.
The 5-2 opinion says the “lookback window” unanimously approved by the Louisiana Legislature giving abuse survivors a three-year window to sue for damages is constitutional.
The legislature in 2021 gave abuse victims three years to sue their abusers no matter when the abuse occurred. Before that, survivors had until age 28 to sue.
The first publicized case of priest sex abuse occurred in Lafayette in the 1980s, when former…
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