Maryland Child Victims Act was enacted last year, allowing child sex abuse lawsuits to be filed by survivors, regardless of how long ago the acts occurred.
Archdiocese of Washington indicates it will appeal the ruling to the Maryland Supreme Court, challenging the constitutionality of the Maryland Child Victims Act, which removed the statute of limitations for sexual assaults on children
More than 500 child sexual abuse lawsuits were filed against the Archdiocese of San Francisco after California temporarily lifted statute of limitations barriers.
Settlement comes after the Catholic Diocese of Syracuse filed for bankruptcy in 2020, as a growing number of clergy child sexual abuse lawsuits were filed, which had once been time-barred by the New York statute of limitation.
Former director formed the Maryland Boychoir the same year he was fired for allegedly sexually abusing a choirboy years earlier in the Catholic Church.
The report is the latest by a state detailing years of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests
Catholic churches will now face child sex abuse lawsuits in Maryland that have previously been barred by the state's statute of limitations
The bill would permanently eliminate statute of limitation for Maryland child sex abuse lawsuits, no matter how long ago the incidents occurred.
Plaintiffs have filed clergy lawsuits which say that, instead of protecting children, the Maine diocese just transferred a priest linked to cases of sexual abuse to different churches.
The child sexual abuse lawsuits bill comes as a judge has granted the Maryland Attorney General to release a report on sexual assault claims within the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore.
