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This is the very embodiment of corruption in the most evil kind of way.
Maryland lawmakers passed a measure Saturday to try to limit future liabilities from claims of sexual abuse at state and private institutions after thousands of people unexpectedly came forward with allegations of abuse, many of them in youth detention centers, putting potentially billions of dollars at stake for the state.
The wave of cases targeting the state’s juvenile justice system resulted after Maryland eliminated the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse claims two years ago with the Catholic Church abuse scandal in mind.
In 2023, Maryland passed the Child Victims Act that was signed into law by Gov. Wes Moore lifting the time limit on how long people could wait to sue over alleged child sexual abuse by institutions.
“The passage of time will not prevent survivors from seeking justice for sexual abuse they suffered as children. I am proud of the role our office played in defending this landmark statute,” Attorney General Anthony Brown promised earlier this year
Now Maryland is rushing to gut the Child Victims Act because it’s not just the Catholic Church getting sued.
How long did it take Maryland Dems to rush the bill through shielding themselves? Two days.
The rapid-fire passage of House Bill 1378 — it got out of the House, through the Senate, back to the House and to the governor’s desk in just two days…
Two days. That’s how corrupt everyone involved in this.
C.T. Wilson, who introduced the Child Victims Act bill, then introduced a bill gutting the bill because the bill was getting too high.
The measure, which now goes to Gov. Wes Moore, reduces caps on settlements from $890,000 to $400,000 for cases filed after May 31 for state institutions and from $1.5 million to $700,000 for private institutions.
Note that the cap for government institutions is $400,000, but at $700,000 for private ones. Why is that?
A number of Democrats who voted for the bill in committee said it was a tough decision, but expressed concerns about the potential costs to the state.
Del. David Moon (D-Montgomery) said the state “does not have the option of bankruptcy to run from our obligations the way our private counterparts do.” Moon voted to move the bill out of committee “with great regret … and apologies to the victims.”
If Maryland is expecting to go bankrupt over all those lawsuits, that either raises questions about the level of abuse by the state… or the credibility of the lawsuits.
The State should not be above the law. And that’s what Maryland Democrats are doing here.
Maryland state Sen. Will Smith, who chairs the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee, said it has been estimated that Maryland is facing a potential liability between $3 billion and $4 billion.
Smith, a Democrat, noted that lawmakers approved the 2023 Child Victims Act in response “to a long fight to have justice for victims of child sex abuse, where our prior framework barred some of those claims if you were above the age of 38.”
“But what we could never have anticipated was just the sheer volume of cases that ensued,” Smith said.
We would never have done this if we knew just how badly we were going to get sued.
“This is the most knowingly unconstitutional piece of legislation this legislative body has ever passed,” said Corey Stern, an attorney representing child sexual abuse survivors, in a text after Saturday’s full Senate vote. “The members who voted for it should be ashamed of themselves. The leadership that insisted they do should be voted out of office.”
If they were capable of shame, none of this would have happened in the first place.
The Demo-Rats in Maryland now face the facts and opened the gate to stupid Litigation they have brought it on themselves
Hasn’t it traditionally been the party of slavery and presidential assassination that always opposed legislation putting caps on awards, like punitive damages and pain and suffering, in civil actions? Bless their little hearts.
Why is the state being sued? It wasn’t tax payer’s crime. The perpetrator is the one who should be sued.
The bill totally backfired on them. They thought they’d bring down the Catholic Church, but the Dems got owned.
Remember this come voting season
Why, because the state was the custodian of the minor at the time of the sexual crime. They failed to protect the victim from a State Employee. The perp can also be sued, but let’s face it, he/she is either dead or has limited means. You sue the deep pockets, that evidently aren’t as big as these morons thought it was.
Because the abuse occured at state run institutions!!
I agree in part but to get the institution or the state to be truly interested in putting safeguards in place and actually attempting to stop this then they should be included. A child has the right to be safe and the people who undertake that job have to be held to their best attempt at that. I believe totally that the individual should be also sued. What I don’t understand is people rushing to pass legislation and people NOT rushing to make this not possible in the first place in equal amounts of concern.
Marylandistan deserves to be on the hook for 10+ BILLION for all the tyranny they have spewed for the last 30 yrs. Take it like a MAN!
Bureaucracy, thy name is corruption. Probably more evidence of why my high school sweetheart, who was living as a ward of the state in a foster home at the time, was so melancholic.
So they really didn’t mean it?
Once the lawsuits involved them, they backtrack.
Psalms 7:15: “He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.” Maryland Democ-rat politicians ignore biblical wisdom at their peril. Next thing you know, they’ll be torching Teslas.
We can only help they spill on themselves.
Come on, Daniel,
Lifting the limitations period on sexual abuse allegations
… is only supposed to apply to Catholic priests,
… the Boy Scouts,
… conservatives,
… Andrew Tate,
… anyone else the Left doesn’t like.
It’s not supposed to apply to teachers, state institutions, child protective services,
… and it will not apply to any homosexual advocacy groups or their ‘trans’ affiliates
… until such time as they can blame those of us who’ve been warning them about this issue
… since we noticed the Catholic priests and the Boy Scouts had a problem with it 40 yrs ago.
Not really meant to be sarcastic.
It’s a function of the oppressor/oppressed model. Just argue it with law professors, eg., and they will tell you that sexual perverts NEVER abuse children, women, or any other vulnerable group …
and without pausing to take a breath – tell you that Catholic priests rape children (as in ALL priests) – without any sense of cognitive dissonance or irony.
I’ve had this argument with law professors, social workers, CPS, etc etc etc …
… and it’s simple: If you don’t agree with a commie, your existence is rape (or whatever villainy you’re opposing at the moment), and
if you’re one of their ‘protected classes’ … see the reaction chart – starting with “that never happens” … and continue through the chart and the deflection and distraction
until you get to the screaming and name calling.
Will any other DEMOcrat infested State follow suit? Illinois?? OREGON?? CA??
Doubtful! Once again the HYPOCRITE party shows it’s true self!!
I lived in the Baltimore metro area from 1990 to 2002 when I moved to the Midwest. I have no regrets about leaving, and I regret the fact that I moved to Maryland the first place. Baltimore city was bad back then, nut is far worse now. I have no sympathy for the fools, dolts and crackpots comprising the Democratic party in the People’s Republic of Maryland.
Hey MD Dems, just do what you do to solve every problem: RAISE YOUR TAXES.
That’s right, don’t fix the problem, just make it more affordable. The typical solution brought to you by corrupt politicians. Morons.
Don’t expect that goofy obama clone governor to solve this problem.
He’s as smart as aoc but worse. His solution will be raising taxes…the democrat
solution to everything. Beware of that nit wit gov.
Md. Dems are just as stupid, upside down, out of touch, hypocritical, and backwards as the National ones. Md. never gets named, but is as Blue as the other looney-tune Blue states in this country. The D.C. influence is strong as the counties surrounding D.C. is where the Deep State lives after business hours.