OHIO
Columbus Dispatch
By Randy Ludlow
The Columbus Dispatch • Saturday April 5, 2014
Ohio law gives victims of childhood sexual abuse until age 30 to file lawsuits over the trauma they couldn’t acknowledge until they become adults.
Amid furor over sexual abuse by some Catholic priests, lawmakers in 2006 enacted a law instituting a 12-year statute of limitations for the filing of lawsuits from the time most victims turn 18 years of age.
The law permits almost anyone to be sued for damages within 12 years — parents, teachers, coaches, clergy, juvenile-detention-center employees and others.
But, those who claim they were sexually preyed upon by state employees at state institutions don’t have nearly as long to turn to court.
Damage claims against the state must be filed within two years of an injury or loss under a separate law.
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