Victims of childhood sexual abuse need healing and justice.

Some charitable organizations say that New Jersey's law shields them from responsibility for the sexual abuse of children.

New Jersey is one of only three states to allow charitable organizations to hide behind a law which, their lawyers argue, grants immunity even when the organization's misconduct results in child sexual abuse.

Our children are precious and all organizations, even charities, must be held to reasonable standards of care.

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Guilty organizations can use New Jersey's law as a shield.

They say New Jersey's Charitable Immunity Act gives them special protection from their misdeeds. They say that because a charity performs "good works" the charity is not subject to the same standards as everyone else.

In fact, time and again, these tactics have prevented culpable organizations from having to defend against victims' charges of sexual abuse and negligence. In New Jersey, victims of sexual abuse are prevented from their day in court.

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Our children should not be made collateral damage for a greater good.

Time and again, other state supreme courts have overturned laws granting special charitable immunity. Time and again, state legislatures have rewritten their state's charitable immunity laws to remove immunity in cases of child sexual abuse.

If one of the state's most fundamental duties is to protect children, how can charitable immunity be applied in cases of child sexual abuse? The rights of a charity, no matter how helpful the organization is to the community, cannot outweigh the right of even one child to be safe from rape.

We need your help.

End Charitable Immunity in cases of child sexual abuse. Write and telephone your legislator (express your support of A2512 by calling the assembly at 609-292-7065) contribute to our public awareness campaign, talk with your neighbors, friends and family. Help us bring New Jersey into the 21st century and make the law fair and just so that victims of abuse can begin to heal.

 

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