New Jersey has changed its charitable immunity law

Two hours ago, New Jersey Acting Governor Richard Codey signed into law significant modifications to the New Jersey Charitable Immunity Act. No longer is a charity immune for negligence in hiring an employee who commits sex abuse on a child. This is fantastic news for New Jersey, and for children in New Jersey. It obviously strengthens the appeal in the case I am involved with: If a charity is not immune from liability for its negligence in hiring an employee, it would be bizarre to imagine them immune from liability for intentional torts. But the big news is the bigger picture: It just got much better for kids in that state.

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82 Responses to New Jersey has changed its charitable immunity law

  1. rich says:

    …and much worse for people wrongfully convicted of sex abuse.

  2. Kate M. says:

    How many children are abused, molested, raped, murdered per annum than people wrongfully convicted of sex abuse, “rich”? I’m as concerned as the next guy about the injustice of wrongfully convicting someone, but let’s get our priorities right, here.

  3. Anonymous says:

    Kate:

    The more severe punishments are, the more important it is for the number of wrongful convictions to be zero. Of course, as far as I understood, this news does not in itself cause alarm in this respect.

    In particularly disgusting crimes such as child molestation, terrorism, and slavery, many people think that some “collateral damage” is justified when sentencing the guilty.

    It’s not, and it never will be, no matter how large an atrocity. I hope you did not mean that it should be.

  4. poptones says:

    Oh god, so now “terrorism” and “child molestation” share the same headline? PLEASE!

    While I applaud any laws that remove special priviledges for non-profits (actually, I think they should be abolished altogether) I do not understand this incessant knee jerk reaction regarding matters of childhood sexuality. Get over your puritan upbringing and look at the world around you.

    I don’t know a person who did not have sexual encounters as a child. Does this mean eveyr one of us is warped in some way? Of course every last one of us is screwed up in our own special and unique way – that doesn’t mean it’s because someone touched our wee before we were old enough to have been brainwashed by the puritan ethic that has completely perverted the US.

    I’m pissed off and the whole world owes me! Now get them panties off, mister potty mouth!

    “Vanessa Lutz,” from “Freeway”

  5. three blind mice says:

    Get over your puritan upbringing and look at the world around you.

    damn poptones. given up caffeine for the new year?

    criminal child abuse is a serious matter. adults who rape children – and let’s call it what it is – and the organisations who enable them should not be granted immunity. a change in the law to this effect seems hardly like “incessant knee-jerking.”

    further to what anonymous wrote, this is true for ANY law. some percentage of innocent people always fall victim to bad laws, corrupt prosecutors, incompetent defense (or if one is black and poor all three.) it’s unfortunate, but why should this be of particular concern in cases of criminal child abuse? some states execute people in error.

    no government bureaucracy is going to produce an error-free result. economists call it rational ignorance. it is unfortunate, but it anyone can think of a better way to administer justice, please let us know.

  6. Joseph Pietro Riolo says:

    To Three Blind Mice:

    I wonder if you would still say the same thing if
    injustice occurs to you. If you three guys (I
    am assuming that you all are male) were locked
    up in jail for life based on false allegations
    that you did gang rape on a young girl along
    with corrupt prosecutor and incompetent defense,
    would you still say, “That’s unfortunate.”?

    It is just too easy for people to be indifference
    to injustice as long as it occurs to other people
    but it is just too amazing how their perspective
    would change suddenly if injustice actually occurs
    to them.

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  7. three blind mice says:

    It is just too easy for people to be indifference
    to injustice as long as it occurs to other people
    but it is just too amazing how their perspective
    would change suddenly if injustice actually occurs
    to them.

    and how would you feel if you were to fall victim to someone who SHOULD have been prosecuted, but a system fearful of making an error stood frozen and did nothing or was forbidden by statute from doing anything or was encouraged by the cardinal to look the other way.

    why do you always seem to insist on looking at only one side of the coin?

  8. Joseph Pietro Riolo says:

    To Three Blind Mice:

    Naturally, I would feel outraged.

    I was not looking only at one side of coin. I
    was disputing your as well as Kate M.’s attitude
    toward injustice. It is not just “collateral
    damage”, to quote anonymous. It is a
    manifestation of our failure to strive for
    more perfect justice.

    Injustice to very few people at the cost of
    better justice for majority is not just unfortunate.
    These few people are not at lower priority than
    the majority. Injustice can’t be rationalized
    away. It is a constant thorn to our society.
    That is the attitude that we should adopt.

    Joseph Pietro Riolo
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  9. poptones says:

    criminal child abuse is a serious matter. adults who rape children – and let’s call it what it is – and the organisations who enable them should not be granted immunity. a change in the law to this effect seems hardly like “incessant knee-jerking.”

    The problem is the societal knee jerk reaction to any notions of children having any form of “sexuality.” When anyone has dared, in this society, dare even mention the idea that these children might be better off if they were not “protected” from their sexuality until their “delicate psyches” had formed they were basically run out of town on a rail. I’m not talking about pedo priests and frustrated pornographers here – I’m talking about well educated people who see the damage this utter perversion is doing to our culture and have had the guts to speak out – people like Jocelyn Elders. Look what happened to her when she (OH MY GOD) suggested children be taught it’s ok to explore their sexuality in an otherwise safe and healthy way.

    People are forbidden by law from taking cameras to their kids sporting events or to beaches, for chrissake, because a bunch of vitriolic control freaks are worried about some errant perv committing what is, at its core, a thought crime – that of photographing and then whacking off over a bit of pubescent flesh. It’s a complete fucking witch hunt and the kids (and all of society) pay the price for the sake of offending a few right wing and left wing zealots.

    It seems to be a symptom of english speaking nations. Australia, Great Britain, Canada, the US… these societies are absolutely off the wall (especially you brits).

    Must be something about the English language making people insane… so much the better I polish up my Russian.

  10. three blind mice says:

    The problem is the societal knee jerk reaction to any notions of children having any form of “sexuality.”

    poptones, children are not little adults. the problem here is adults – like the ridiculous jocelyn elders – projecting, or forcing,their views of sexuality onto children. kudos to the NJ state assembly for ignoring the sensitivity police and making adults responsible for their actions.

  11. poptones says:

    the problem here is adults – like the ridiculous jocelyn elders – projecting, or forcing,their views of sexuality onto children.

    I don’t which offers the better “proof” of my earlier assertion: your comment above or shinat-sans rambling, nonsensical interjections.

    If language is a virus, English is the virus that makes you stupid…

  12. A says:

    WTF is up with some of you commenters?

    Lessig’s plaintiff is not having a knee-jerk reaction to the concept of childhood sexuality; nor is Codey’s law one that would increase the likelihood of wrongful criminal convictions. Lessig’s client is suing civilly for ABUSE of a child by a — & here’s the big point — NON-child; & Codey’s law makes it easier for an abused child to recover, CIVILLY, from a nonprofit entity. No worries, sex offenders & free-thinking pediatric sexologists — these developments aren’t going to affect you.

    How about getting your facts right, _then_ commenting??!

    –A.

  13. poptones says:

    Equating “child molestation” with “terrorism” in the contemporary context is “knee jerk” – it is a tired rhetorical tactic worthy only of beltway politicians making braindead pleas to a public fattened on junk food sound bites in a parietal attempt to cast their pet rider as politically untouchable as it careens toward the realm of “law.”

    Perhaps you should try keeping up with the entire conversation…

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  47. پاپ آپ نمایشگاهی در غرفه‌های نمایشگاهی با هزینه کم در کمترین زمان برای جداسازی فضای غرفه از دیگر قسمت‌ها و همچنین تبلیغ محصولات و خدمات، معرفی برند و کسب وکار یک شرکت و پس زمینه عکاسی مورد استفاده قرار می‌گیرد.

  48. وقتی شما کلمه یا عبارتی را در گوگل سرچ می کنید ممکن است صدها و یا حتی هزاران وب سایت وجود داشته باشد کلمه مورد نظر شما در آنها وجود داشته باشد اما اینکه کدام سایت ها جزو اولین سایت ها داخل لیست نمایش داده شود توسط الگوریتم های گوگل مشخص می شود. قطعا تمامی سایت ها سعی می کنند که اسم سایت آنها جزو لینک های اول لیست گوگل باشد، توسط الگوریتم هایی که گوگل برای اینکار مشخص کرده مشخص می شود.

  49. plccar says:


    فروشگاه اینترنتی تیانا بزرگترین مرکز خرید چراغ پارکی ، خیابانی، دیواری ، سلطنتی ، چراغ حیاطی ، محوطه با بیش از یک دهه فعالیت در ایران می باشد. تیانا در بیش از 30 مدل در طرح ها و رنگ های مختلف برای استفاده در حیاط خانه و ساختمان، باغ و ویلا، پارک ها و فضای سبز، راهروی ساختمان و محیط داخلی ساختمان چراغ پارکی و دیواری تولید می کند. محصولات تیانا دارای طراحی سلطنتی فوق العاده زیبا هستند که در شب به هر فضا و محیط با نور دهی بالا جذابیت می بخشند. تنوع محصولات در فروشگاه چراغ پارکی تیانا آنچنان بالاست که برای هر طرح و سلیقه محصولاتی در نظر گرفته شده است.

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