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Article: Missouri Supreme Court ends suit over clergy abuse
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- Daily Record and the Kansas City Daily News-Press
- Article date:
- April 2, 2008
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The state Supreme Court has ended a man's lawsuit claiming sexual
abuse by a member of the clergy, saying the time in which to file
suit had expired.
Robert Visnaw sued in 2006, claiming former Marianist Brother
William Mueller sexually abused him while he was a senior at St.
John Vianney High School in Kirkwood in 1984 and 1985.
The Marianist Province, which runs the high school, sought
summary judgment in St. Louis County Circuit Court, saying the
statute of limitations to file suit had passed in 1993, or five
years after Visnaw turned 21.
A judge ruled against the religious order, but then the Missouri
Supreme Court granted a preliminary writ of prohibition in October,
and made that ...