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HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH)– The Catholic Church in Connecticut is headed for a show-down in the State Supreme Court over when victims of priest sex abuse in the past can report their crimes.
At the center of this case is the church’s legal challenge to a state law, which allows victims to report the crimes up to 30 years after their 18th birthday.
Two women, who say they were child victims of sex abuse by priests, say Church resources should not be spent trying to overturn this law.
News 8 has learned that within the next six weeks, the State’s highest court will hear the appeal of the first civil case ever tried against the Archdiocese of Hartford for damages due to sexual abuse by a priest.
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