Content warning: This email discusses sexual abuse
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.
That’s unacceptable. Join me in urging the Colorado General Assembly to:
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.
Every victim deserves justice. Sign our petition to the General Assembly today.
Andrew Romanoff
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P.O. Box 9290, Denver, CO 80209
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