DOE v. CREIGHTON


439 Mass. 281 (2003)

JANE DOE v. GERARD CREIGHTON.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

April 30, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marielise Kelly for the defendant.

David P. Dwork (Adam M. Berkowitz with him) for the plaintiff.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, SOSMAN, & CORDY, JJ.


COWIN, J.

The plaintiff, who has been called Jane Doe, filed a complaint on August 11, 1998, seeking damages for injuries arising from sexual abuse, some forty years after the abuse is alleged to have occurred. A judge in the Superior Court granted the defendant's motion for summary judgment on the ground that the plaintiff's claims were barred by the applicable statute of limitations. In an order and unpublished memorandum pursuant to its rule 1:28, the Appeals Court...

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