Boomerang: NY politician gets bonked by the same law he passed to go after the Church.
It's remarkable how politicians can change their minds about the laws they pass once they are applied to themselves.
In 2022, the state of New York passed something called the Adult Survivors Act, which created a one-year "lookback window" enabling anyone to file a civil lawsuit against anyone for sexual abuse, no matter how long ago or wild the accusation, effectively temporarily suspending any civil statute of limitations. The 2022 legislation was nearly identical to New York's previous 2019 Child Victims Act, which also created a one-year window.
Ostensibly, the legislation was enacted to give "justice" to "victims," but everyone knew what the real purposes were: to line the pockets of tort lawyers friendly to Democrat politicians who would in turn send the money right back to those politicians in the form of campaign contributions.
No matter, of course, that these window statutes do grave violence to any notion of fairness, justice, or due process for the defendants targeted in these lawsuits. Institutions can be sued for any act alleged its employees committed at any time, many decades after the act occurred, memories have long faded, evidence destroyed, and even perpetrators long dead and therefore unable to defend themselves. It creates a de facto open season for any crank, charlatan, or con man to make a claim of abuse and score some easy cash. And it makes it essentially impossible for defendants to defend themselves.
'But, wait! That's unconstitutional!'
One of the politicians who voted for the 2022 law was a Brooklyn state senator by the name of Kevin Parker. At the time the law was passed, Parker was quoted as proudly supporting the law "to ensure [that] all New Yorkers can seek justice and be heard."
But then in 2023, a woman filed suit against Parker under the very law he voted for by claiming that Parker raped him some 20 years earlier.
Parker vehemently denies the claims against him. And now we learned this month that Parker's defense against the lawsuit against him is that the very law he once championed is now – wait for it – "unconstitutional." How rich.
Congratulations, Sen. Parker. You have now learned firsthand what literally thousands of wholly innocent Catholic priests have discovered over the past three decades: that it is nearly impossible to defend yourself against claims that were alleged to have occurred many decades ago.
Karma is really a b-+¢h indeed.
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Want to learn about the rampancy of false accusations against priests?:
- "The Great Shakedown Keeps A-Rollin': Phony Claims Continue at Epic Pace, Here Are The Facts" (January 2024)
- The Greatest Fraud Never Told: False Accusations, Phony Grand Jury Reports, and the Assault on the Catholic Church (Amazon.com)
