Category Archives: Child Sex Abuse

NY Child Victims Act and Boy Scouts Of America Bankruptcy

NY Child Victims Act and Boy Scouts Of America Bankruptcy

On February 17, 2020, the Boy Scouts of America announced that it was filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, a decision with far-reaching implications for survivors of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of Scout leaders and other adults within the organization.   Most significantly, if survivors wish to recover damages from the Boy Scouts of America […]

NY Child Victims Act Not a Violation of Due Process

NY Child Victims Act Not a Violation of Due Process

44 lawsuits against the Diocese of Rockville Center in Long Island will move forward as Nassau County Supreme Court Judge Stephen Jaeger recently ruled that the Child Victims Act did not violate the Diocese’s due process rights. The Diocese filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuits against it in the fall of 2019, arguing that the […]

NY Child Victims Act Extended to August 13, 2021

NY Child Victims Act Extended to January 13, 2021

The New York Child Victims Act’s (CVA) look-back window for victims to file otherwise time-barred cases will be extended until August 13, 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic caused a reduction in court services limiting the ability of abuse survivors to file lawsuits and effectively prepare their cases with an attorney. Filing a lawsuit under the CVA […]

Sex Abuse Victim Claims NY Archdiocese Tricked Him into Accepting a Small Settlement

Sex Abuse Victim

Emmett Caldwell, 62, alleged that a clergy member at St. Thomas the Apostle in Manhattan sexually abused him while he was in elementary school. After filing a claim with an independent compensation fund instituted by the Archdiocese of New York in 2016, he was told that $75,000 was the most that he could recover.  Victims’ […]