OREGON
The Oregonian
By Aimee Green, The Oregonian
on December 17, 2013
Portland attorney Kelly Clark — who became nationally known for his successes in championing the causes of sexual abuse victims — died Tuesday morning. He was 56.
During his 30 years as a lawyer in Oregon, Clark represented hundreds of child molestation victims in litigation against what he called “institutions of trust” — the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts of America, the Church of Latter Day Saints and school districts. He helped force mammoth organizations to concede to decades of sexual abuse within their ranks, or to efforts to keep knowledge of abuse out of the public light.
Clark died of cancer-related causes, surrounded by family members and loved ones at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.. Clark was told in September he was ill with celiac disease, said law partner and friend Steve Crew. Clark spent several weeks in the hospital and was released. Earlier this month, he traveled to the Mayo Clinic to seek treatment for what later was determined to likely be leukemia and liver cancer. He was put on hospice, and within days, died.
His wife, Sabine Moyer Clark, died in October after a year-long battle with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s Disease. She was 49.
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