BOSTON (MA)
Boston.com
By BOB SALSBERG
Associated Press / May 7, 2013
BOSTON (AP) — An attorney who helped lead an $85 million child sexual abuse settlement against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston before revealing that he had been a victim of child molestation urged state lawmakers to raise the statute of limitations on sex-abuse lawsuits.
The measure, heard Tuesday by the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee, would give victims until age 55 to file civil claims against their alleged attackers. Under current Massachusetts law, most victims have only until age 21 to bring civil lawsuits, according to backers of the legislation.
‘‘It’s not going to be complete justice, there will never be complete justice,’’ attorney Eric MacLeish said before meeting with lawmakers.
‘‘But this bill will be so helpful for so many people and I would like to think that it could have been helpful to me,’’ he said, adding that he would argue for the bill from both the standpoint of a lawyer and abuse victim.
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