Within an hour of Wednesday’s release of
an attorney general’s investigation into abuse at the hands of priests in Baltimore’s Catholic archdiocese, the Maryland General Assembly sent a bill to Gov. Wes Moore’s desk to allow more survivors to sue people who sexually abused them.Moore vowed to sign the Child Victims Act (House Bill 1), sponsored by House Economic Matters Committee Chair C.T. Wilson, a Democrat from Charles County and a survivor of childhood sexual abuse. This is the fourth legislative session that Wilson, who painfully related his own story of abuse to fellow lawmakers, has sponsored the bill...
Gov. Wes Moore ‘eager’ to sign Child Victims Act, approved less than an hour after church abuse report’s release – Baltimore Sun
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ReplyDelete"Both passed unanimously in the House, but supporters said the bills have idled in Judicial Proceedings for a month."
Our legal scholars are burning the midnight oil dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s.