Rhode Island's Roman Catholic diocese is challenging a lawsuit filed after a state law gave sex abuse victims more time to sue their abusers or the institutions they worked for.
The challenge by the Diocese of Providence comes in the case of a 53-year-old man who sued the diocese in September.
The Providence Journal reported Friday that the man says he was abused in the 1970s and 1980s by a now-dead North Providence priest. He was the first to file a priest abuse lawsuit after the state extended the statute of limitations.
His lawyer says the motion to dismiss is not unexpected.
