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	Ill. Supreme Court Snubs Abuse Lawsuit against Former B’ville Priest By Kevin Mcdermott St. Louis Post-Dispatch September 24, 2009 http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/political-fix/political-fix/2009/09/ill-supreme-court-snubs-abuse-lawsuit-against-former-bville-priest/ SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - The Illinois Supreme Court has ruled against a former student who claims he was abused by a Belleville-area priest in 1984, saying his “recovered-memory” allegation came too late under the state law that was in effect when he recovered the memory. David Clohessy, director of the St. Louis-based “Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests,” called the ruling “a devastating loss for children and a massive victory for dangerous predators.” The plaintiff, identified in suit as “John Doe,” alleges that Rev. Kenneth Roberts abused him at the age of 14, while he was attending St. Mary’s school in Belleville. The plaintiff says the repressed memory resurfaced in 1998. He filed his suit in 2003, under a newly passed state law that allowed recovered-memory sexual abuse cases to be filed up to five years from the time the memory was recovered.
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