Texas Supreme Court rules against Southern Baptist leader accused of rape, a win for survivors
in the early 1980s. Pressler and his lawyers denied the allegations and moved to have the case thrown out of court, arguing that Rollins had filed his claims too late.led him to develop drug and alcohol addictions and suppress those memories until 2016, when they were revealed while undergoing psychiatric treatment in prison, where he was serving a sentence for driving while intoxicated.
The state’s high court agreed last week and ordered the case be sent back to Harris County district court. Legal experts said the ruling is significant because it opens the door in Texas for people who were sexually abused as children to sue both attackers and institutions that mishandled or concealed the abuses years or decades later.
“It’s a massive and important step forward,” said Rachael Denhollander, a lawyer and expert on child sexual abuse who was the first person to publicly accused now-imprisoned USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar of abuse. “It shows a willingness to bring our justice system in line with what we know about sexual assault.
“One thing we now know about sexual assault is that the PTSD and mental neurobiological injury often make it impossible for survivors to fully remember what’s taken place or to even be in the position where they’re healthy enough to come forward,” said Denhollander, who has advised the Southern Baptist Convention and other religious groups on sexual abuse policies. “And that closes the halls of justice to many survivors.
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