Statutes of limitations - Discovery rule applied to toll statute of limitations where victim of childhood sexual abuse represses memories of that abuse until a later time - One-year statute of limitations period for sexual abuse begins to run, when.
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Doe, Appellant, v. Doe, Appellee.
[Cite as Doe v. Doe (1994), Ohio St.3d .]
Statutes of limitations -- Discovery rule applied to toll
statute of limitations where victim of childhood sexual
abuse represses memories of that abuse until a later time
-- One-year statute of limitations period for sexual abuse
begins to run, when.
(No. 94-963 -- Submitted September 14, 1994 -- Decided
October 5, 1994.)
Certified by the Court of Appeals for Hamilton County, No.
C-920809.
Katz, Greenberger & Norton, Richard L. Norton and Ellen
Essig, for appellant.
Graydon, Head & Ritchey, Michael R. Barrett and Jean M.
Geoppinger, for appellee.
The judgment of the court of appeals is reversed on the
authority of Ault v. Jasko (1994),
,
N.E.2d , and the cause is remanded to the trial court for
application of Ault.
A.W. Sweeney, Douglas, Resnick, F.E. Sweeney and Pfeifer,
JJ., concur.
Moyer, C.J., and Wright, J., dissent.