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	What about Real Help for Abuse Victims? Editorial Examiner November 15, 2007 http://www.examiner.com/a-1049565~Editorial__What_about_real_help_for_abuse_victims_.html BALTIMORE (Map, News) - It is simple justice: Extend the statute of limitations for abused children. Maryland's General Assembly repeatedly refuses to do so under pressure from the Archdiocese of Baltimore. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in the final day of its fall meeting here today can serve God and justice by issuing a statement renouncing interference in affairs of state to cover up criminal conduct. Give some solace and hope to the suffering victims past, present and future. Reassure millions of the faithful. Help all institutions more effectively deal with a scourge that too often is covered up until the law allows criminals to evade justice. As testimony last session by victims made clear, these crimes afflict all faiths. They are a cancer eating the souls of too many institutions. Yet it is the Church that has brought sufficient pressure to bear on Senate President Thomas V. "Mike" Miller and other powerful legislators to block reform of the law. That is the grossest violation of the letter and spirit of America's separation of church and state. Our founders never intended the concept to be a shroud covering crimes against children.
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