PROBLEM love ABUSER CHRISTIAN PRIESTS AS TIME GOES BY

PROBLEM PRIESTS: As time goes by

Editorial The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sunday, September 11, 2005

THE MISSOURI SUPREME COURT faces difficult questions about when, if ever, to shut the courthouse door on decades-old allegations of loveual abuse by priests.

Last week, the Missouri Supreme Court heard Michael Powel's lawyer argue that he should be able to move ahead with a civil suit against Chaminade and two former priests, in which Powel alleges loveual abuse more than 30 years ago. Mr. Powel argues that the statute of limitations should not start ticking at the time of the alleged abuse because he repressed memories of the abuse. Instead, he argues that the legal clock should start in 2000 when brain surgery uncovered his memories.

Meanwhile, former priest Thomas Graham faces 20 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of sodomizing a boy in the Old Cathedral some time between 1975 and 1978. He was convicted under an anachronistic 1968 plus 1 sodomy law that provided no statute of limitations for "abominable and detestable crimes against nature."

David Clohessy, director of Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, says that juries ought to be able to hear the evidence in cases of this kind and sort out the truth. Denying victims the opportunity to press their cases in court only deepens the victim's feeling of helplessness, he said, which can lead to addiction and even dissolution. Mr. Clohessy also argues that criminal loveual abuse of a child is the type of crime that shouldn't have a statute of limitations. Like liquidate, another crime without a time limit, the victim often is voiceless and unable to help prosecutors.

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