Amid controversy that the Catholic Church secured immunity against old lawsuits, a Senate committee rejected a bill to hold accountable institutions that harbored abusers decades ago.
By Erin Cox Erin Cox Local reporter covering Maryland state politics Email Bio Follow April 3 at 8:09 PM A Senate panel on Wednesday voted down a bill that would have let childhood sex abuse victims of any age sue institutions that harbored their attackers.
The bill had become a heightened source of controversy in Annapolis after its lead sponsor accused the Catholic Church of swindling him into deal that may have granted the organization irreversible immunity from sex abuse cases that happened decades ago. “It wiped out the compromise from two years ago,” Sen. Michael Hough said after the vote. The 2017 law raised the statute of limitations for civil sex abuse cases, increasing the age victims can file from 25 to 38 years old. It also included language some legal experts say makes it unconstitutional by increasing the statute of limitations again.
Del. C.T. Wilson , the bill’s sponsor and himself a victim of child sex abuse at the hands of his adoptive father, was shaking in anger after the committee vote. He said the lawmakers who voted down the bill were complicit in helping institutions protect predators.
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