Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear 'Hornbeck'

The court annouced today that it will review the Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision in Hornback v. Archdiocese of Milwaukee and Diocese of Madison [7 pp. pdf]. The case summary says, in its second paragraph

The lawsuit claims that from approximately 1964 to 1966, [Gary T.] Kazmarek taught at a school in the Milwaukee Archdiocese where he allegedly sexually abused "more than two dozen children." After Kazmarek taught at a school in the Milwaukee Archdiocese, he taught at a school in the Madison Diocese where he allegedly sexually abused "up to ten children."

Back in the first paragraph it says,

They [the plaintiffs] allege that from 1968 to 1973, Gary T. Kazmarek, [by then] a school teacher in the Louisville, Kentucky Archdiocese, sexually abused them and that the Milwaukee Archdiocese and Madison Diocese "knew or should have known of Kazmarek’s propensity for sexually abusing children."

The chronology continues in the third paragraph.

According to the complaint, the Milwaukee Archdiocese’s and the Madison Diocese’s alleged negligence, which the appellants claimed they did not discover until October of 2002, "was a substantial factor in causing Kazmarek’s sexual abuse of the" appellants.

Alleged negligence "in failing to refer Kazmarek to the police and/or taking other action to prevent Kazmarek’s continuation of his pattern of sexually abusing children."

The Court of Appeals determined that the [Milwaukee County] circuit court did not err when it concluded that the petitioners’ claims were barred by the statute of limitations. ...

Calculated from the date of the last sexual assault.