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Louisiana High Court: It’s Priests’ “Right” Not to Be Sued for Abuse

NEW ORLEANS (LA)
The New Republic [New York NY]

April 12, 2024

By Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling

The state Supreme Court ruled that priests have a “property right” not to be sued for sexually abusing children.

The Louisiana Supreme Court has decided to strip sexual assault survivors of an avenue of justice, ruling 3–4 that it’s the due process rights of priests and their enablers to not be held accountable in instances of sexual assault.

The case, Bienvenu v. Diocese of Lafayette, was brought by Douglas Bienvenu and several other plaintiffs who claimed they were sexually molested by a Roman Catholic priest during the 1970s, when they were between the ages of 8 and 14.

But in its majority opinion issued on March 22, the court argued that while the facts of the case were largely undisputed, the priest—and the religious institution he was a part of—was actually protected under the U.S. Constitution’s due process clause, which says that no one shall be “deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.”