Harris v. Diocese of Scranton

NEALON, J.,

The Diocesan defendants have filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings in this civil action brought by a 57-year-old plaintiff who alleges that he was sexually abused in 1961 by a priest who died in 1974. The Diocesan defendants maintain that this suit is barred by the two-year statute of limitations governing personal injury claims, whereas the plaintiff contends that the Diocesan defendants are estopped from asserting that defense by virtue of the fraudulent concealment doctrine. Since the plaintiff has not identified an affirmative independent act of concealment by the…