By Benjamin Cox on January 8, 2021 at 7:15pm
Illinois sex abuse victims in a school district can now file suit more than 2 decades after an incident. The Illinois 4th District Appellate Court panel affirmed a Sangamon County judge’s decision to deny a dismissal bid lodged by Board of Education of the New Berlin Community Unit School District No. 16 in a suit accusing a former teacher of sexually abusing an underage female student over a four-year period ending in 1989.
The ruling upholds 7th Circuit Judge Gail Noll’s ruling from March 2019 that the New Berlin Board of Education can be sued for conduct committed by former teacher Carroll Owen Smith.
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Ill. Child Sex Abuse Victim Can Sue School 20 Years Later
Law360 (January 7, 2021, 11:13 PM EST) An Illinois law setting a 20-year statute of limitations for child sex abuse civil cases is not preempted by the one-year time limit for suits against governmental entities, a state appeals court has ruled in a suit seeking to hold a public school board liable for a woman s injuries.
A three-judge Appellate Court panel on Wednesday affirmed a Sangamon County judge s decision to deny a dismissal bid lodged by Board of Education of the New Berlin Community Unit School District No. 16 in a suit accusing a former teacher of sexually abusing an underage female student over a four-year period ending.