UTAH
Star Tribune
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A judge has dismissed a sex-abuse lawsuit against the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City, saying Utah brothers Ralph and Charles Colosimo waited too long and failed to show there was any compelling legal reason to bring their case to trial.
Third District Judge Paul G. Maughan on Friday said in a memorandum decision that both were aware of the purported abuse and could have reported it at the time.
Maughan also wrote that the Colosimo brothers could not prove that the principal defendants – including top officials of Utah’s Catholic diocese and Judge Memorial Catholic High School – knew the Rev. James F. Rapp was a pedophile and did nothing to stop him.
The Colosimos in February filed an $80 million lawsuit claiming they were abused by a Roman Catholic priest in the 1970s.
Typically, the statute of limitations in such abuse cases would expire four years after the alleged victim turned 18.
