Childhood Sexual Abuse
Whitwell v. Archmere Academy, Inc., C.A.No. 07C-08-006-RBY (Del.Super. May 29, 2008) (refusing to recognize a priest’s psychotherapist-patient privilege in childhood sexual abuse cases)
Whitwell v. Archmere Academy, Inc., 2008 WL 1735370 (Del.Super. April 16, 2008) (upholding over a due process challenge the constitutionality of the landmark Delaware Child Victim’s Act of 2007, which created a two year retroactive statute of limitations window allowing victims and survivors of childhood sexual abuse to hold their abusers and enablers accountable).
Whitwell v. Archmere Academy, C.A.No. 07C-08-006 (Del.Super. Feb. 22, 2008) (ordering a priest to answer deposition questions about his sexual abuse of a young boy in Delaware, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, despite the priest’s efforts to hide behind the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination).
Quill v. Catholic Diocese of Wilmington, Inc., 2008 WL 193000 (D.Del. Jan. 23, 2008) (recognizing the right of a federal court to hear lawsuits brought under the Delaware Child Victim’s Act of 2007).
Eden v. Oblates of St. Francis DeSales, 2007 WL 4722830 (Del.Super. Dec. 14,
2007) (striking down a priest’s efforts to hide behind the Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and instead requiring the priest to answer deposition questions about his sexual abuse of a young boy in Delaware and New Jersey).
Eden v. Oblates of St. Francis DeSales, 2006 WL 3512482 (Del.Super. Dec. 4, 2006) (recognizing repressed memory as a valid means of tolling the statute of limitations in childhood sexual abuse cases).
