Lawmakers may block statute of limitation changes but justice will win out

ANNAPOLIS (MD)
Capital Gazette

March 7, 2019

Legislation extending the statute of limitations for child sex abuse in Maryland faces an unlikely future in the General Assembly.

Yet the bellwether for this idea is neither the testimony last week before a legislative committee in Annapolis nor the shameful abuse of former Key School students by instructors dating back 20 to 40 years — and covered up by the school until last year.

It is the clergy sex abuse scandals that continue to rock worldwide Catholicism.

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