Clergy Abuse Attorney

While it's clear to all who are working with survivors of priest sexual abuse that the crisis in the United States is not over, the next battleground will be Latin American. The next wave of survivors will be Hispanics who are fiercely religious and where sexual abuse of the faithful has gone underreported and often unreported in most sectors. The Church remains a very strong cultural influence in the latin community. Priests and nuns are revered and their behavior is often unquestioned. I recently lost a priest sexual abuse case in Puerto Rico due to the statute of limitations. The survivor, who had been abused many years ago, was determined by the court to be time barred from seeking justice in the civil courts. Most survivors are not able to come forward to face their abusers for many years, sometimes decades because the abuser is a priest or a nun. The survivor has lived with the abuse and said nothing because they feared that saying anything bad about a priest would mean they would be sent to hell and cut off from the church.