Chicago Psychologist Sues Catholic Church and Attorney Generals of Illinois, Wisconsin and Indiana to Enforce Child Sex Abuse Laws. Asks Court to Review Child Abuse as Emotional Murder and Strike Down Statutes That Equated Child Abuse with Assault

A Chicago psychologist has sued the Chicago Archidiocese and key Illinois State Departments in Federal Court over their failure to comply and enforce child abuse reporting laws by mandated professionals

 October 6, 2004 -- The Catholic churchs sex abuse scandal takes center stage Wednesday, February 16th at 10:30 before the Chicago federal courtroom of 7th Circuit District Court Senior Judge George Marovich, (Green v. Benden , 04CV5813) when Illinois psychologist Dr. Theophilus Green asks the court to remove state and federal statute of limitations on child sexual abuse. At this hearing, both are expected to be present.

Dr. Green sued Cardinal George and the Washington-based United States Conference of Catholic Bishops on behalf on his clients, using a rarely used and little understood legal strategy called jus terii. Simply put, it allows a third party stakeholder to sue on behalf of another, for himself and the second party, when both are damaged and the latter is unable to sue the first.

Dr. Green alleges Cardinal George, a vice president of USCCB, Vatican Citys legal representative in America, did not comply with child protection laws that could have protected his clients from clergy abusers church Mandated Reporters refused to report. Dr. Green complains that when Illinois unlawfully placed sanctions on his license, following compliance with child protection laws, and enforced them with other states, they interfered with his ability to
protect his clients locally and nationally.

Since other states enforced sanctions from an Illinois legal system a former governor termed arbitrary, capricious, deeply flawed and racially discriminatory, and USCCB admitted sex abuse nationally, Dr. Green claims privilege over every USCCB victim. Dr. Green reminds the court that Illinois removed 20 of 24 predominately minority men from death row and Chicago police unlawfully arrested and charged two young black boys for murder, without comment or censure from the Illinois Attorney General. Illinois has not moved to correct deeply flawed system rendering due process protections impossible.

As a forensic and clinical psychologist, Dr. Green asks the court to review the child abuse statutes because they unfairly equate child abuse with assault, - invasive, but not permanent.

Dr. Green says that if the legal framers had todays social scientists to consult, they would have termed it emotional and psychological murder. As there are no statute of limitations on murder, there should be none for child abuse.

The suit also includes the US Dept of Health and Human Services and says qui tam legislation commands USCCB entities return every Medicaid-Medicare dollar received. Dr. Green alleges those federal funds, along with church mandates for adult celibacy and male only USCCB leadership, constituted violations of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, federal child protection laws and The RICO Act. The suit seeks also seeks to remove USCCB entities from all educational and child care programs nationally and seeks federal registration of all Catholic priests.

Dr. Green says the USCCB web site admits 10 percent of its members were abusers in 1970, and brags that it is only four percent today. Dr. Green points out however, even four percent is outrageous. It is double digit multiples of sexual abuse rates for similar percentages for such a classically well-educated group of professional men. He asks, Can you imagine how many abusers there would be if only four percent of Americas lawyers were abusers, and four percent of doctors, bankers, architects, police officers and judges as well? He says four percent is histrionic proportions for a professional group, equal to thirty or forty percent of less well educated populations.

Dr. Green complains that America spent billions on assistance for victims of Americas enemies in Bosnia, Croatia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Korea. And has given hundred of millions more
to help strangers injured by a Tsunami. Yet America allows 5,000 known abusers to circulate freely, with the certain expectation that there will be 5,000 more, all threatening his clients and
potential clients. His litigation seeks the federal courts to enforce federal implementation of rehab services that the Catholic church fund similar to those of the GI bill.

Dr. Greens complaint reminds the court that Cardinal George and USCCB, made public admissions only after advice from legal counsel that their charter prohibited state and federal criminal prosecution. There was never any read attempt to surrender church law to civil courts. As example, Dr. Green quotes Cardinal George in February, 2004, when he admitted spending nearly $40 million to address priest suits, damages and rehabilitation and nothing on victim rehab. As a psychologist, Dr. Green seeks damages from the catholic church, local insurance companies and state officers who ignored the catholic church admissions. His complaint specifically excludes the special damages of individual litigants during private litigation.

According to Dr. Green, USCCB made admissions that the attorney generals of each state should have acted on, and the refusal of public officials to act constituted a conspiracy against his clients
and a misprision of their official responsibilities. His suit asks the court to command each of the attorney generals to enforce child protection laws and immunities.

Dr. Greens suit also seeks to require the federal courts to remove sanctions from his license, resulting from his compliance with child protection laws, while ignoring far more serious violations by the church. Wisconsin and Indiana also ignored the church clergy child abuse, but suspended Dr. Green for an unheard of sixty years because of his race; ignoring priests because of religious affiliation.

This is a federal court case. If Dr. Green, prevails not only would state attorney generals across the country have to go after the Catholic church in each state, so would U.S. Attorneys.

If Judge Marovich agrees that this complaint should go forward, the first orders of the new Catholic U.S. Attorney General could be to collect federal dollars given the Catholic church and their Mandated Reporter employees,-- for all the time they knowingly withheld knowledge or criminal child abuse.

This litigation would conform with class action reforms already before Congress.

Contact:    
Dr. Theophilus Green
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312-697-4784

AS THIS ACTION IS PENDING, DR. GREEN WILL GIVE NO PERSONAL INTERVIEWS. PLEASE CALL OR EMAIL YOUR QUESTIONS FOR    CLARIFICATION AND THEY WILL BE PROMPTLY ADDRESSED.

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