BOSTON (MA)
Boston Herald
By Danielle Rivard
Monday, January 9, 2012
Survivors, supporters and activists of clergy abuse gathered this weekend with a “renewed energy” in hopes of changing the current statute of limitations on sex crimes 10 years after the priest sex abuse scandal that rocked the Catholic church in Boston and around the world.
About 70 people — many of them victims of sexual abuse — marched on Boston’s Cathedral of the Holy Cross at the end of a three-day conference and “celebration” of the decade-long campaign to end the abuse of children within the church. But they said there is more work to be done.
“The single most effective mechanism to protecting children in the state and around the country is to change statute of limitations,” said Barbara Blaine, 55, a clergy abuse survivor and activist. “We can’t go back to being 12 years old again, and that leaves us feeling helpless, but what gives us hope is being active and working to prevent other children from being abused.”
Anne Doyle, co-director for BishopAccountability.org, said the event also sought to thank the survivors who told about their abuse.
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