TREMTON (NJ)
WCBS
(CBS) TRENTON The New Jersey State Assembly passed a bill on Monday that strips the protection non-profit organizations like the Catholic Church have from lawsuits.
More than a dozen people, including those who allege they were sexually abused by priests, gathered on the steps of the New Jersey Statehouse Monday to support the bill.
“This bill is very important I think the Catholic Church needs an incentive,” said Patricia Serrano, the mother of a man who says he was sexually abused by a priest.
Serrano says her son, Mark, was molested by a priest at St. Josephs Church in Mendham, starting at the age of 9.
“There's a hole in my heart that I did not know this was happening,” she said.