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Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
POSTED BY DAVID CLOHESSY ON SEPTEMBER 18, 2013
It feels like justice for child sex abuse comes in waves. There will be a string of stunningly negative court decisions over days and then there’s a sudden reversal, and a series of positive legal developments will happen.
In Canada, for instance, a judge recently ruled that two sisters from Ontario must pay their uncle $125,000 in libel damages for allegedly accusing him – falsely – of sexually assaulting them when they were children.
[CBC News]
And in Montana, a judge recently gave a child molesting teacher a depressingly light sentence, claiming that his 14-year-old victim is “older than her chronological age” and “as much control of the situation” as the teacher.
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