Parochial day school students have no protection under New Jersey’s Child Sexual Abuse Act, since the institutions, unlike boarding schools, don’t constitute households, a federal judge says.
Without “a relationship more analogous to that of a parent or more evocative of home life,” the institution “does not fit a reasonable definition of ‘within the household,’” as the the term is used in the statute, U.S. Chief District Judge Jerome Simandle said Wednesday in Bryson v. Diocese of Camden, 12-cv-499.
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