2010-04-26 A Better Chance at Justice for Abuse Victims

2010-04-26 Lawrence Lessig New York Times \The Vatican\Pope Benedict XVI\Catholic Church\sexual abuse http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/27/opinion/27lessig.html A Better Chance at Justice for Abuse Victims A Better Chance at Justice for Abuse Victims  Last week, Pope Benedict XVI told victims of sexual abuse by priests in Malta that the Catholic Church was doing all it could to investigate abuse accusations and find ways to safeguard children in the future. With the pope's pledge, and the resignation in recent days of three European bishops involved in the sex abuse scandal, it might appear that the church is finally taking responsibility for failing to protect children against molesters for hundreds of years.

But the church is not doing everything in its power to help victims. In fact, it is worsening the sins of the past by taking a leading role in preventing abused children from getting the compensation they need to help remedy past abuse.

&ldquo;[The Catholic] church is not doing everything in its power to help victims. In fact, it is worsening the sins of the past by taking a leading role in preventing abused children from getting the compensation they need to help remedy past abuse.&rdquo;   