DOE v. AINSWORTH

No. CA 87 1749.

540 So.2d 425 (1989)

John DOE v. Reverend H. Doug AINSWORTH, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

February 28, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin Patrick Monahan, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellant John Doe.

M. Michele Fournet and Kathleen Stewart Richey, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee The Reverend H. Doug Ainsworth.

Neil H. Mixon, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee Louisiana Assembly of the Church of God, Inc.

Lawrence A. Mann, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee The Chapelwood Church of God.

Robert Ledoux, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee The Executive Council of the Church of God, Inc.

Before EDWARDS, SHORTESS and SAVOIE, JJ.


EDWARDS, Judge.

From a judgment sustaining defendant's peremptory exception of prescription, plaintiff appeals. We affirm, finding not applicable the doctrine of contra non valentem, which would have suspended the running of the prescriptive period.

Plaintiff filed suit against the defendants on November 21, 1985. Plaintiff's cause of action was premised on allegations that defendant, Reverend H. Doug Ainsworth, had sexually molested plaintiff while...

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