By Susan Campbell
Hartford Courant
May 19, 2011
http://blogs.courant.com/susan_campbell/2011/05/why-cant-st-francis-hospital-b.html
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[First, there's this: 5-19-11 Motion for Sanctions.pdf]
Attorneys for Tim Doe 1, the plaintiff in the next civil trial against St. Francis Hospital for its lack of oversight of its in-house pedophile, George Reardon, have filed a motion to disqualify attorneys from Hartford's Day Pitney law firm from representing the hospital.
Reardon conducted a decades-long bogus growth study that lured countless children into his hospital exam room, where he sexually molested and exploited them.
In this motion, the issue is the privacy of Tim Doe 1. Plaintiffs in the 60-some civil cases still facing the hospital (St. Francis settled with 32 plaintiffs represented by Stratton Faxon earlier this month) use pseudonyms because of, as you can read in the motion linked above, the perceived shame attached to being the victim of childhood sexual abuse.
(The shame rests entirely with the pedophile and his enablers, but as with Tim Doe1 and John Doe 2 before him, plaintiffs fear that people who don't know about the childhood sexual abuse in their past will treat them differently, once they learn. It is hard to overstate the fear of being publicly identified as a victim of childhood sexual abuse. It can be debilitating.)
From the link, it appears that St. Francis' attorneys aren't particularly committed to maintaining the anonymity of the plaintiffs. That's a shame, since this was something agreed upon earlier.
I've said it before and I'll say it again: This isn't over until the hospital has settled with everyone. Any else is simply ugly, and it cheapens the fine work done by St. Francis away from the courthouse.
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