JEFFERSON CITY (MO)
Post-Dispatch
By Robert Patrick
Of the Post-Dispatch
09/08/2005
JEFFERSON CITY - The question of whether people with repressed memories can collect from the Roman Catholic Church on new claims of old sex abuse was argued before the Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday, after lower courts could not agree.
The eventual decision is sure to have a significant financial impact on the church in Missouri and on those trying to win damages over allegations of misconduct by priests that may date back decades.
The case involves accusations that two faculty members at Chaminade College Preparatory School in St. Louis County sexually abused a teenage student named Michael Powel in the early 1970s.
The case centers on whether it is too late for Powel to sue the faculty members, Chaminade and the Marianist Province.
Posted by kshaw at September 9, 2005 07:38 AM