Thursday, March 18, 2021

WMAR: Senator William Smith [Montgomery County] is the chairman for the Judicial proceeding committee. The bill has died or failed in that committee since 2017. We asked the senator for an interview before the session started, left our number with his staff member and never heard back. .@Willcsmithjr

 

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Several people gathered on Lawyer's Mall to get the attention of law makers to end the statue of limitations for civil trials for lawsuits of sexual abuse...

The current law only allows a person to file a suit up to the age of 38 and they must do it before October of 2023. Robb says that stacks the deck against victims because the trauma may be suppressed for decades.

...Senator William Smith is the chairman for the Judicial proceeding committee. The bill has died or failed in that committee since 2017. We asked the senator for an interview before the session started, left our number with his staff member and never heard back.

"Maskell was a known abuser since the time he was in the seminary"

You may remember Teresa Lancaster. In the documentary The Keepers, Lancaster claimed Father Joseph Maskell abused her and hundreds of others over decades at Archbishop Kehough. Lancaster also has a book coming out recounting her times at Archbishop Kehough called "Safe in Socks"...

...The bill has been stuck in Smith's committee since February 2nd...

https://www.wmar2news.com/news/local-news/push-for-civil-suit-sex-abuse-reform-in-annapolis?fbclid=IwAR085Bqz4foYGTNLrryNf2k_c1Df-vICpwtVXD3GpNNbz3Ee9LxADoVWDbo

2 comments:

  1. The bill has been in limbo
    Crossing and dotting its lingo
    I might be easier to find Waldo
    Or even win a game of bingo.

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  2. "The child sexual predators never stop and so we have some evidence where they continue into their 90s right? So, It's the type of issue that just has multiple by each perpetrator and it just never ends," Robb explained.
    Let's hope that the SAO is paying attention and not just sitting on their laurels.

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