CHICAGO (IL)
People’s World
March 6, 2018
By Al Neal
What do former USA Gymnastics national team doctor Larry Nassar and the Catholic Church have in common? Both are well-known sexual predators.
After a chilling reveal of the widespread criminal sex acts committed against children by depraved Catholic priests, thanks to the investigative reporting of the Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team in 2002, you would think that such a guilty institution would shy away from involving itself in a separate sex abuse scandal. Apparently not.
Recently, a Michigan legislative bill introduced after the Larry Nassar scandal, which would retroactively extend the amount of time child victims of abuse have to sue their abusers, has drawn the concerns of the Catholic Church.
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