The Wisconsin Supreme Court says a woman who was sexually assaulted by a basketball coach when she was 13 waited too long to sue the league where she played.
The court yesterday rejected the woman’s lawsuit against the AAU. She sued the league under Wisconsin’s law that allows for civil suits in abuse cases until someone is 35-years-old. She got her suit filed not long before her 35th birthday, but the court said because the law only applies to churches and religious orders, or the abusers themselves, the woman missed the deadline. The abuse happened in the 1990s.
The man who abused her was convicted, and sentenced n 2016 to 13 years in prison.
