north carolina - Feeney Law Firm https://feeneylawfirm.com/tag/north-carolina/ Quincy MA Lawyer handling personal injury claims and lawsuits nationwide Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:17:11 +0000 en hourly 1 Defrocked Charlotte Priest Faces New Sexual Abuse Claim https://feeneylawfirm.com/defrocked-charlotte-priest-faces-new-sexual-abuse-claim/ Fri, 16 Apr 2021 15:17:11 +0000 https://feeneylawfirm.com/?p=5449 Defrocked Charlotte Diocese priest Robert Yurgel is facing a new claim that he allegedly sexually abused a boy as young as five years old inside St. Matthews Church in Ballantyne. Yurgel has already served 8 years in prison for sexually abusing an altar boy back in 1999. The lawsuit has also named the Charlotte Diocese and the Capuchin Franciscan Friars.

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]]> North Carolina Passes Sexual Abuse Law Reforms Helping Survivors https://feeneylawfirm.com/north-carolina-passes-sexual-abuse-law-reforms-helping-survivors/ Wed, 01 Jul 2020 13:50:50 +0000 https://feeneylawfirm.com/?p=4589 In November 2019, Governor Roy Cooper signed Senate Bill 199 into law. In the signing of the bill, which went into effect December 1, 2019, North Carolina took a positive step forward in protecting sexual abuse and assault victims. The bill closed loopholes like sexual contact under the premise of medical treatment, or consent revocation involving incapacitation by alcohol. These types of loopholes made it harder to prosecute sexual predators.

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]]> Charlotte Dioceses Sued for Negligence; Claims Alleged Church Should have Known Priests were Predators https://feeneylawfirm.com/charlotte-dioceses-sued-for-negligence-claims-church-should-have-known-priests-were-predators/ Fri, 26 Jun 2020 17:55:55 +0000 https://feeneylawfirm.com/?p=4571 Last November, North Carolina legislators opened a 2-year ‘revival window’ allowing survivors of sexual abuse, whose claims were previously time barred, the ability to file a claim against their abusers. The new window has allowed two men, who remain anonymous, the ability to refile their claims after their original cases were dismissed in 2014. At that time, the diocese successfully argued that the claims were past their statute of limitations.

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]]> North Carolina Diocese publishes list of credibly accused clergy https://feeneylawfirm.com/north-carolina-diocese-publishes-list-of-credibly-accused-clergy/ Thu, 21 May 2020 17:20:03 +0000 https://feeneylawfirm.com/?p=4341 North Carolina diocese publishes list of credibly accused clergy. The hired independent investigators to review files of over 1600 church personnel which began over a year prior to the release.

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