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	Psychologist Sues Catholic Church and Midwest Attorney Generals to Enforce Child Sex Abuse Asks Court to Equate Abuse with "Emotional Murder" PR Leap [Chicago IL] February 6, 2005 The Catholic church’s sex abuse scandal takes center stage Wednesday, February 16th at 10:30 before the Chicago federal courtroom of 7th Circuit District Court Senior Judge George Marovich, when Illinois psychologist Dr. Theophilus Green takes on Chicago’s Cardinal Joseph Cardinal George and asks the court to remove state and federal statute of limitations on child sexual abuse. At this hearing, both are expected to be present. Dr. Green sued Cardinal George and the Washington-based United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on behalf on his clients, using a rarely used and little understood legal strategy called jus terii. Simply put, it allows a third party stakeholder to sue on behalf of another, for himself and the second party, when both are damaged and the latter is unable to sue the first. As a psychologist, Dr. Green sued Cardinal George, a vice president of USCCB, Vatican City’s legal representative in America, for not complying with child protection laws that could have protected his clients from abusers church Mandated Reporters knowingly failed to report. Dr. Green complains that when Illinois unlawfully placed sanctions on his license, following compliance with child protection laws, and enforced them with other states, they interfered with his ability to protect his clients locally and nationally. Since other states enforced sanctions from an Illinois legal system a former governor termed "arbitrary, capricious, deeply flawed and racially discriminatory", and USCCB admitted sex abuse nationally, Dr. Green claims privilege over every USCCB victim. Dr. Green reminds the court that Illinois removed 20 of 24 predominately minority men from death row and Chicago police unlawfully arrested and charged two young black boys for murder, without comment or censure from the Illinois Attorney General. Illinois has not moved to correct its legal system rendering due process constitutional protections in state court for his clients impossible. As a forensic and clinical psychologist, Dr. Green asks the court to review the child abuse statutes because they unfairly equate child abuse with "assault, — invasive, but not permanent." Dr. Green says that if the legal framers had today’s social scientists to consult, they would have termed it "emotional and psychological murder." As there is no statute of limitations on murder, there should be none for child abuse. The suit also includes the US Dept of Health and Human Services and says qui tam legislation commands USCCB entities return every Medicaid-Medicare dollar received in the last 52 years. The suit seeks also seeks to remove USCCB entities from all educational and child care programs nationally and seeks federal registration of all Catholic priests. Dr. Green says the USCCB web site admits 10 percent of its members were abusers in 1970, and brags that it is only four percent today. Dr. Green points out however, Even "four percent" is outrageous. It is double digit multiples of sexual abuse rates for similar percentages of for such a classically well educated groups of professional men. He asks, "Can you imagine how many abusers there would be if "only four percent" of America’s lawyers were abusers, and four percent of doctors, bankers, architects, police officers and judges as well? He says "four percent" his histrionic proportions, equal to "thirty or forty percent" of less well educated populations. Dr. Green complains that America spent billions on assistance for victims of America’s enemies in Bosnia, Croatia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Korea. And has given hundred of millions more to help strangers injured by a Tsunami. "Yet America allows 5,000 known abusers to circulate freely, with the certain expectation that there will be 5,000 more," all threatening his clients and potential clients. His legislation seeks the federal courts to enforce federal implementation of rehab services that the Catholic church fund similar to those of the GI bill.. Dr. Green’s complaint reminds the court that Cardinal George and USCCB, made public admissions on advice from legal counsel that their charter prohibited state and federal jurisdictions from suit on 52 years of admissions. Dr. Green says USCCB is the Vatican’s lawful agent in this country and has spent no money to rehabilitate victims. Cardinal George admitted spending nearly $40 million to address priest suits, damages and rehabilitation and nothing on victim rehab. As a psychologist, Dr. Green seeks damages from the catholic church, local insurance companies and state officers who ignored the catholic church admissions. His complaint specifically excludes the special damages of private litigation defendants. According to Dr. Green, USCCB made admissions that the attorney generals of each state should have acted on, and the refusal of public officials to act constituted a conspiracy against his clients and a misprision of their official responsibilities. His suit asks the court to command each of the attorney generals to enforce the law. Dr. Green’s suit also seeks to require the federal courts to remove sanctions from his license, resulting from his compliance with child protection laws, while ignoring far more serious violations by the church. Wisconsin and Indiana also ignored the church clergy child abuse, but suspended Dr. Green for an unheard of "sixty years" because of his race; ignoring priests because of religious affiliation. This is a federal court case. If Dr. Green, prevails not only would state attorney generals across the country have to go after the Catholic church in each state, so would U.S. Attorneys. If Judge Marovich agrees that this complaint should go forward, the first order of the new Catholic U.S. Attorney General could be to collect federal dollars given the Catholic church and their employees over the past 52 years. Dr. Green alleges those federal funds, along with church mandates for adult celibacy and male only USCCB leadership, constituted violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act This legislation would conform with class action reforms already before Congress.