NEW YORK (NY)
Rockland/Westchester Journal News
August 16, 2019
By Frank Esposito
Shorty after midnight Wednesday, lawyers flooded the New York state civil court system with hundreds of new lawsuits accusing a variety of institutions and individuals of an array of sexual abuse incidents dating back decades.
One law firm even live-streamed the filings on Facebook.
By the time courts closed for the day, attorneys had filed 427 sex abuse cases against institutions that many had speculated would be named. Chief among them were several Roman Catholic dioceses, the Boy Scouts of America and Rockefeller University Hospital in New York City.
Filings were drastically down on Thursday with only five cases filed in four counties.
Wednesday was the first day to file suits under the Child Victims Act, which allowed anyone to file a lawsuit against organizations in New York despite the statute of limitations.
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