DOE v. ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE

No. 75493.

862 S.W.2d 338 (1993)

John Z. DOE, Appellant, v. ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF JEFFERSON CITY, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Missouri, En Banc.

September 28, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Tierney, Cynthia W. Scherb, Kansas City, MO, Louis C. DeFeo, Jr., Jefferson City, Rebecca M. Randles, Sharon R. Lowenstein, Kansas City, for respondents.

Jeffrey R. Anderson, St. Paul, MN, Michael J. Hoare, St. Louis, for appellant.


LIMBAUGH, Judge.

This appeal follows the trial court's dismissal of plaintiff's petition seeking damages for physical and emotional injuries he suffered from being sexually abused as a minor. Because the appeal involves the validity of a state statute, it was transferred from the Court of Appeals, Western District, where it was originally filed, to this Court. Mo. Const. art. V, § 3. The sole issue is the constitutionality of the childhood sexual abuse...

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