Mo. court bars repressed memory abuse suit against Catholic group

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The state Supreme Court bars a man from suing a Catholic religious order for abuse he allegedly endured as a high school student in the mid-1980s.

The Supreme Court ruled that the deadline to sue had passed by the time Robert Visnaw finally filed suit against the Marinist Province two decades after the alleged acts.

Visnaw argued his lawsuit should be allowed. He claimed he did not remember the sexual nature of the abuse by former Assistant Vice Principal William Mueller until 2005.

But the Supreme Court said Visnaw had previously recalled other physical details of the abuse, so he would have been capable suing far sooner than he did.