Kentucky Supreme Court rejects appeal over alleged sex abuse by priest [United States]
The Supreme Court of Kentucky has declined to hear the appeal of a man who had sued the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington over alleged sexual abuse by a priest.
The court, in a Dec. 14 filing without comment, declined to review earlier rulings by the Court of Appeals and Fayette Circuit Court dismissing the case filed by Samuel Greywolf, who said as a teenager in the 1970s he was abused by a priest.
The Court of Appeals had ruled in August that Greywolf filed his 2002 lawsuit too late, even though the diocese's own internal documents confirmed that the priest named in the lawsuit was a sexual abuser.
The appeals court had said a victim can overcome the normal time limits for an abuse-related lawsuit — a year after becoming an adult — if there’s evidence of a cover-up. But it said there was enough publicity about abusive priests in the diocese by the early 1990s to give Greywolf a basis for filing suit then.
“Regrettably, it's the end of the road” for the case, said Greywolf’s attorney, Charles Arnold.
