COLUMBUS (OH)
ChannelCincinnati.com
POSTED: 12:03 pm EDT June 29, 2005
UPDATED: 12:21 pm EDT June 29, 2005
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The Ohio Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether to allow lawsuits claiming the Archdiocese of Cincinnati failed to warn victims of sexual abuse by priests.
Trial courts in Cincinnati and Shelby County threw out the lawsuits, saying the victims waited too long to file them.
The law says lawsuits over sexual abuse of a minor must be filed within one year after reaching age 18.
But the victims say the time limit should not apply because they only learned in 2002 that there were other victims and the church knew about them.
Posted by kshaw at June 30, 2005 07:23 AM