December 19, 2005

CHARITABLE IMMUNITY

NEW JERSEY
The Press of Atlantic City

Published: Sunday, December 18, 2005
Updated: Sunday, December 18, 2005

For too long, churches and other nonprofit organizations that negligently or knowingly employed sexual predators who abused the group's members have been protected from legal action by state law.

Now that law is just one signature away from being changed to allow childhood victims to sue the agencies that employed their abusers.

It's about time.

Thursday, the state Senate voted 34 to 1 to pass a bill that will modify the Charitable Immunity Act — an act that has protected nonprofit organizations from being held legally responsible for harboring a sexual predator as an employee.

Posted by kshaw at December 19, 2005 06:08 AM