A suite of new laws taking effect Sunday include new rights for victims of child sex abuse in Maryland and tougher gun laws.
A wave of civil lawsuits is expected to hit Maryland courthouses Monday, as a new law takes effect that gives child sex abuse victims expanded rights to sue institutions that harbored their attackers.
The act takes effect as several new laws launch Oct. 1 across the region, including tougher gun laws in Maryland and a ban on cashless businesses in the District of Columbia. Friday and created an automatic block to suits from victims under the new law. Instead, survivors of Catholic clergy sexual abuse who want to sue the Archdiocese of Baltimore for damages will have to file a claim in the bankruptcy case.
Robert K. Jenner, a lawyer who is part of a team that had planned to file complaints about the archdioceses of Baltimore and Washington, as well as the private Key School in Annapolis, strongly condemned the archdiocese’s decision as “another rape, another violation of their rights.” While the state has no statute of limitations on criminal charges for child sex abuse, the previous laws required victims to sue for damages before they turned 38. Many sex abuse victims do not come to terms with their abuse until later in life, and state lawmakers tried for years to eliminate the statute of limitations for civil action too.
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