GUAM
Guam Daily Post
Louella Losinio | Post News Staff
Former Sen. Robert Klitzkie, offering testimony in support of Bill 326-33 yesterday, said during a public hearing at the Guam Legislature that “broadening the measure is a good start toward providing justice to those who have been sexually abused by clergy and preventing such abuse in the future.”
The measure, authored by Sen. Frank Blas Jr., would amend current law relative to the statute of limitations in cases involving child sex abuse.
Klitzkie said he is a lawyer but was not representing anyone yesterday.
He said justice requires broadening the reach of the legislation to provide relief to those who have suffered at the hands of child sexual abusers and to include not only the abusers but also their enablers, aiders or abettors, those who are acting in concert with them and their religious institution or corporations.
“The Cs are referenced here – condonation, cover-up and conspiracy,” he said. “Recent history tells us that the three Cs are all too prevalent in the worldwide Catholic Church. The institutional hierarchy of the church condones, covers up and conspires to prevent victims of child sexual abuse from attaining justice,” he said.
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