The vote comes as the state's attorney general prepares to release a four-year probe of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, detailing 600 victims of clergy sexual abuse over 80 years.
After years of impeding similar proposals, the Maryland Senate is poised to pass a bill Thursday erasing the time limits that once barred many child sex abuse victims from suing institutions that harbored their attackers.Although the bill is all but certain to clear the House of Delegates and become law, lawmakers are already bracing for a court fight over whether the measure is constitutional.
No new criminal charges arose from the investigation. But it yielded a 456-page report that is only the second of its kind in the nation., aged preschool through teens at the time of the abuse. Relying on archdiocese records subpoenaed through a grand jury investigation, investigators identify 158 priests as attackers, including 115 priests who have already been prosecuted or publicly
The legislation would let any living victim of child sex abuse bring a lawsuit, opening the door to adjudicating abuse that could have been emotionally buried for generations. Damages from public institutions were previously capped at $400,000 under an unrelated law about suing government. Though it was the subject of much debate — and objection by church advocates about parity — lawmakers kept the cap for public institutions lower than private ones because, they said, there’s a public interest in not bankrupting the government.
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