PEORIA — An appellate court panel this week found a Peoria
County judge erred when she threw out a lawsuit by a man claiming he was
sexually abused by a priest.
The panel of 3rd District Appellate Court judges held the man's lawsuit, which was filed in 2012, wasn't time-barred by state law even though the abuse happened in the early 1990s. Rather, Judge Mary K. O'Brien wrote, with Judges Robert Carter and Vicki Wright concurring, the lawsuit should be allowed to proceed as the man claimed in his suit that he blocked the abuse out of his memory until 2011. As such, the statute of limitations hadn't tolled.
http://www.lincolncourier.com/news/20160827/sex-abuse-lawsuit-against-priest-and-peoria-diocese-revived-on-appeal
The panel of 3rd District Appellate Court judges held the man's lawsuit, which was filed in 2012, wasn't time-barred by state law even though the abuse happened in the early 1990s. Rather, Judge Mary K. O'Brien wrote, with Judges Robert Carter and Vicki Wright concurring, the lawsuit should be allowed to proceed as the man claimed in his suit that he blocked the abuse out of his memory until 2011. As such, the statute of limitations hadn't tolled.
http://www.lincolncourier.com/news/20160827/sex-abuse-lawsuit-against-priest-and-peoria-diocese-revived-on-appeal
