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	Court Agrees to Allow Appeal to Be Dropped in Presbyterian Church Lawsuit The Courier-Journal September 10, 2011 http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20110909/NEWS01/309090108/Court-agrees-allow-appeal-dropped-Presbyterian-Church-lawsuit?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|Local%20News The Kentucky Court of Appeals on Friday granted the request of a California man to drop his appeal of a lawsuit against the Louisville-based Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) alleging sexual abuse at an African mission boarding house in 1988. Jefferson Circuit Judge Irv Maze had dismissed the lawsuit earlier this year, saying Sean Coppedge would have needed to sue by 1993 — or within a year after he turned 18 — under the Kentucky statute of limitations for personal-injury lawsuits. Coppedge initially appealed but chose to withdraw the case rather than risk the decision becoming Kentucky case law “to be used against other survivors of childhood sexual abuse,” said his lawyer, Ann Oldfather of Louisville. The appeals court published its dismissal of the case on Friday. The suit alleged Coppedge was abused at age 14 at a mission boarding house in the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo by an older teenager whom church officials knew was a sexual predator. The allegations closely mirror what the Louisville-based denomination itself acknowledged in a report released in 2010.
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