NCA hears sex-abuse case

The Nebraska Court of Appeals heard arguments Thursday in a civil case in which a former student at St. John Lutheran School in Seward is seeking more than $2 million in damages. Journal Star Online The District Court ruled against the female plaintiff on statute of limitations grounds. Federal court in Lincoln had dismissed a former male student's suit on similar grounds, but the plaintiff has a pending appeal to the 8th Circuit. The current plaintiff's attorney argued that a continuous pattern of abuse and repression from coming forward earlier continued as the girl later worked for the Lutheran School, similar to the concept of the continuing treatment exception to the statute of limitations in professional malpractice cases. Casey v. Levine, 261 Neb. 1 (2001)