CALIFORNIA
Orange County Weekly
By Gustavo Arellano
Tue., Mar. 5 2013
Joelle Casteix has long been a pal of the Weekly, and not just because she’s a hilarious, multitalented gal. She’s been one of the most prominent Catholic Church sex-abuse survivors in Orange County, molested by some pig who’s now a–I kid you not–choir director at some no-name college in the Midwest. She’s been a constant companion to other sex-abuse survivors who need a shoulder, who need someone to face off against pedophile apologists, who needs someone to contact the media.
And now Casteix is taking her story to a national level by serving as one of the faces for a national campaign to help pass something called the Child Victims Act.
Being pursued for the moment on a state-by-state level, the proposed legislation would take away the statute of limitations currently imposed on sex-abuse survivors regarding civil lawsuits that has long hindered complete judgement on pedophiles, especially of the Catholic Church variety. In California, it’s currently in the State Senate.
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