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RETROACTIVITY OF NEW CHILD SEX ABUSE LAW AFFIRMED
In a groundbreaking first test of the new Child Sex Abuse Statute of Limitations law, adopted by the Legislature on June 26th, a Middlesex Superior Court Judge ruled in a decision released today that the law applies, retroactively, to a claim against Harvard University which was pending before the law was passed.
Judge Bruce R. Henry issued a 9 page decision in which he stated: “the Legislature intended that § 4C½ apply retroactively, even in cases brought before its enactment.”
The claim by Stephen Embry alleges that he was sexually abused by a Harvard swim coach “in the Harvard pool, locker room, and showers on approximately one hundred occasions;” that the coach “sexually assaulted at least two other young boys in the swimming program;” and he “took numerous nude photographs of Embry in the Harvard locker room, showers, and pool.” Embry also saw numerous “nude pictures of other young boys” taken on the Harvard campus.
Copies of the decision and the Complaint are available. For more information, contact:
Carmen Durso
DURSO LAW
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Boston, MA 02110-2287
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