EVANSVILLE (IN)
Courier & Press
February 19, 2020
By Jon Webb
It’s been more than a year since a former Evansville man stood before the Indiana Senate to share something private and devastating.
On Feb. 13, 2019, Chris Compton told the Judiciary Committee that the late Rev. Raymond Kuper had sexually abused him while Compton was a 9-year-old student at Christ the King.
He was there to advocate for a Senate bill that would have given accusers of childhood sexual abuse more time to pursue civil cases in incidents that had long eclipsed the statute of limitations.
Now, a similar-but-compromised bill is working its way through the legislature.
SB 109 blitzed through the Senate 44-2 earlier this month. And Wednesday morning, it landed in front of the House committee on courts and criminal code, chaired by Evansville-area Rep. Wendy McNamara.
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