MILWAUKEE (WI)
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
By Annysa Johnson of the Journal Sentinel
Feb. 8, 2012
The Archdiocese of Milwaukee will argue Thursday in court that victims of clergy sexual abuse had enough information on the church’s handling of cases to have filed fraud claims years earlier, according to newly unsealed documents in the archdiocese’s bankruptcy.
The archdiocese, which has consistently denied wrongdoing in its handling of abuse cases, will argue the statute of limitations expired before those victims stepped forward.
The argument is among several raised by lawyers for the archdiocese in motions seeking to bar claims by three victim-survivors who allege they were abused by parish priests and a choir director in the 1970s and ’80s.
The attorney for the creditors committee has characterized the church’s strategy as a test case that, if successful, could be used to throw out the vast majority of the 550-plus claims filed in the bankruptcy.
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