Columnist opposes Wisconsin’s Child Victims Act

In a column in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (3/30), Rick Esenberg wrote about the relative importance of statutes of limitations and how they should apply in sex abuse cases involving the Catholic Church. He argued against the provisions in the Child Victims Act that would remove the statute of limitations for victims of childhood sexual assault, pointing out the harm to society wrought by imposing high civil liabilities on a charitable organization. Esenberg feels that there are ways to hold the guilty responsible for their actions without the high cost to the innocent that liability against the whole Church would create.