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· 4/3/1998

Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington v. Secter

Citations

  • 966 S.W.2d 286
  • 1998 Ky. App. LEXIS 31
  • 1998 WL 151143

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that the General Assembly had not extended the rule and that injury from sexual abuse was not latent
  • apportioning fault between a teacher and his employer in a sexual abuse case, but not the abused student
  • involving claims that diocese failed to act in response to earlier reports of a teacher’s sexual abuse of other students, thereby allowing that teacher to abuse the plaintiff
  • applying one-year statute of limitations from KRS § 413.140(1)(a) to plaintiff’s claim “that the Diocese negligently hired, supervised, and retained [the abuser] as a teacher and guidance counselor in its schools”
  • applying KRS 1 Kentucky Revised Statutes. -2- 413.190(2) in a context inapplicable here
  • “‘Obstruction might also occur where a defendant conceals a plaintiffs cause of action so that it could not be discovered by the exercise of reasonable diligence.’ ”

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Judges: Buckingham, Combs, Gardner

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