Good to know

A legislator in my birth state of Maryland, where the majority of the sexual abuse committed against me took place, is fighting to enact a change in state law that will extend the statute of limitations for suing one's abuser to when the victim reaches age 50.

"Since that increase, victims and mental-health professionals have told [State Senator Delores G.] Kelley that 25 is still too young because abuse victims need more time to understand and confront the source of their chronic depression, problems with intimacy, alcoholism and inability to hold down a job, she said."

I agree with this assessment wholeheartedly. It's been only quite recently, at age 39, that I have been able to begin to deal effectively with the lingering aftereffects of my abuse, to the chagrin of the national office of the Boy Scouts of America.

Naturally, groups such as the Catholic Church are vehemently against this proposed change:

"The proposed 25-year increase to the limitations period has drawn opposition from Catholic groups, who voiced concern that the additional time to sue could leave the church potentially facing litigation for years to come against allegations that are decades old and, thus, not easily defended against."

Tough. If the Catholic Church would have dealt with the issues promptly and correctly when they occurred, rather than simply transferring the pedophile priests to other parishes to prey on fresh kids, they wouldn't be in the legal and financial mess they find themselves in today.

Should this legislation be approved and signed into law, my lawsuits against both my abuser and the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America will be filed as soon as possible, in order to publicly force them to accept responsibility for their actions (and inactions, when it comes to both the Patuxent District and the National Capital Area Council's reprehensible ignoring of mine and other boys' plights after my abuser was arrested).