Ron Johnson Testifies Against child Abuse Victims, Opposed Child Victims Act in wisconsin

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[fantagor]

Republican ethics at their finest. Ban lawsuits for molestation because it will financially impair churches, the YMCA, schools...here's a better idea:

DON'T HIRE SEXUAL PREDATORS, or in the case of the Catholic Church, don't foster an atmosphere of harboring and protecting child predators that goes back far as the eye can see.

Unreal that organizations which care for children should have NO RESPONSIBILITY to root out people who'd sexually abuse children, as if it's some kind of exotic risk.

[dizzymasekela]

Ron Johnson fought tooth and nail to protect pedophile priests in Wisconsin from getting punished for raping Wisconsin kids.

And Ron Johnson is a hypocritcal Republican welfare queen. Johnson took one million dollars from the government to build his plastics factory Pacur.

[Madner70]

@Feewaybill57 Fair enough. I think it's certainly an issue that has merits on both sides, no doubt.

[Madner70]

@madisonhack I was not commenting upon Johnson, but rather the substance of his position. I am not saying that negligent hiring should not be actionable, but I do believe that every defendant should have their day in court, to present evidence and witnesses, and that claimants who have a legitimate gripe timely file lawsuits within a reasonable time to ensure that the rights of the accused is not jeopardized by unreaonsable delay, the fading memory and in some cases, death of witnesses. I

[bizeebee]

Wisconsinites voted Russ Feingold out for this hypocrite? I'm sure he'll be right up there with his fellow Tea Baggers voting down programs to help stop child marriage....too expensive and denying first responders to 9/11 health coverage.

It's disgusting! Shame on you Wisconsin! ahhhhhh now back to the Packer game!

[madisonhack]

@Madner70

If you knowingly hire such a person, you're part of the problem. Johnson knew about Father Feeney because he wrote the checks from his desk on the Financial Board of the Green Bay Archdiocese. He protected pedophiles and helped place them in other parishes so they could rape other kids.

[madisonhack]

@jtkammerud

The Catholic Church transferred Father Feeney 14 times in 14 years. Johnson knew about this, and he wrote the checks that paid for the pedophiles to relocate. That's who we have for a U.S. Senator now. Thanks, WI.....you bunch of dumbasses.

[Feewaybill57]

@Madner70 I disagree with you, but damn if yours wasn't the most cerebral and civil reply to anything I have ever posted. I suppose it's my pro-plaintiff bias, but I think the harm suffered by those with legitimate but time-barred claims outweighs the risks to otherwise vicariously liable institutions.

[Madner70]

@dizzymasekela Ron Johnson advocated for time limits with which to bring a civil suit for "negligence" of the employer/organization in failing to adequately monitor, hire, etc, the pedophile. I know it's unpopular because we're dealing with perverts who commit the acts, but those aren't the ones the trial lawyers are after. The pedophile does not pay, but rather the organization/congregation/insu­rance pays. It's a multi million dollar racket, just look at the campaign contributions.

[Madner70]

@LiberalPaul With respect, the purposes of statute of limitations is to prevent fraudulent and stale claims, as well as problems of proof. LIke it or not, the fact of the matter is that allegations of sexual abuse decades after the fact, in some cases after the alleged perpetrator may have died, implicates real substantive concerns of fairness and evidentiary problems, particularly when you are dealing with the evergrowing concept of vicarious liability and direct liability by employers.