The Next Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal Is Taking Place Right Now—in Bankruptcy Court

The Next Clergy Sex Abuse Scandal Is Taking Place Right Now—in Bankruptcy Court

The first person to sue the Rockville Centre Catholic Diocese after the passage of New York’s Child Victims Act was a man named Richard Tollner. It was August 2019, and New York was one of seven states that had created a law giving sex abuse victims a limited window to bring lawsuits no matter how far in the past the abuse had taken place.Tollner, who is now 66, said that he had been raped—and molested multiple times—by a priest, beginning when …