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[ [link removed] ]Colorado’s former attorney general wanted grand jury investigation of
priest abuse scandal — but didn’t get it -Colorado Sun
Decades of abuse—and still no justice.
That’s what we learned in a devastating new report commissioned by
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser. The report documents the sexual
abuse of at least 166 children by 43 Catholic priests.
Just as outrageous: more than half of the victims were abused after the
dioceses were notified that the priests were child sex abusers.
General Weiser and Gov. Jared Polis have pledged to pursue appropriate
action. That could and should include a grand jury probe.
Why didn’t the state launch a criminal probe when these allegations
surfaced last year? The answer, at least in part: because Gov. Polis’s
predecessor failed to do so.
[ [link removed] ]That’s unacceptable. Join me in urging the Colorado General Assembly
to:
1. Authorize the attorney general to initiate criminal investigations
without waiting on the governor; and
2. Lift the statute of limitations for filing lawsuits in child sex abuse
cases.
As former Attorney General Cynthia Coffman pointed out yesterday,
“Limiting the statute of limitations in child sex abuse cases is a way of
perpetrators limiting their accountability. The short window is there to
benefit the people in power.”
In 2006, I cosponsored a law to lift the statute of limitations on
criminal charges. But our effort to do the same in civil cases fell short.
[ [link removed] ]Every victim deserves justice. Sign our petition to the General
Assembly today.
[4]Andrew Romanoff
Andrew Romanoff
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