COLUMBUS (OH)
Toledo Blade
By JIM PROVANCE
BLADE COLUMBUS BUREAU
COLUMBUS - It would be a list of people "credibly accused" of molesting a child.
It would be a list that any church, scout troop, school, or Little League team could access to check out potential volunteers or employees.
It would be a list of people who might never have been charged with a crime, let alone have been convicted of one.
For this general concept, there is no working model. But it is a concept that the Catholic Church has proposed as an alternative to a bill now before the Ohio House Judiciary Committee.
That bill would suspend for one year the statute of limitations on lawsuits alleging child sex abuse. If passed, the change could lead to hundreds of civil lawsuits alleging sexual abuse as long ago as 35 years.