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A report stemming from a 1 1/2-year state investigation is giving insight into the sobering extent of child sex abuse by dozens of clergy in North Dakota over a span of decades. Mike McCleary
In the late 1960s or early 70s, the Rev. Armour Roberts drove three boys from Bismarck to New Leipzig to visit another priest, the Rev. John Owens.
The men mixed cocktails for the boys, and the boys high school freshmen drank until they were drunk. One passed out and later awoke with Owens standing over him, partially naked and inappropriately touching him. Owens had already molested another boy. Roberts was in an upstairs room with the third boy.
North Dakota bill aims to extend time for abuse victims to file claims
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Several adult victims of child sexual abuse appealed to lawmakers in emotional testimony Wednesday to back legislation that would give survivors more time to sue their alleged perpetrators for crimes that could date back decades.
BISMARCK, North Dakota Several adult victims of child sexual abuse appealed to lawmakers in emotional testimony Wednesday to back legislation that would give survivors more time to sue their alleged perpetrators for crimes that could date back decades.
The bipartisan legislation, HB 1382, would provide a two-year window to suspend the statute of limitations to file claims against alleged abusers or institutions that protected them.
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Some prominent business defense lawyers, reacting to a recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report about the relatively paltry number of Covid-19 exposure lawsuits to date, say we are merely at the starting gate for virus-related injury claims.
“One has to keep in mind that the lawsuit numbers reflect a time when many large entertainment, sports, food, schools, offices, and other venues are closed or have significantly reduced their operations,” Cary Silverman, partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, told
Legal Newsline in an email. “This limits the potential for an outbreak that plaintiffs’ lawyers are most likely to take advantage of, even when the business responsibly did its best to follow public health guidance.”