Sam McGee was in court arguing against the Catholic Diocese of Charlotte’s motion to dismiss lawsuits claiming that the Diocese and its bishops failed to follow up on earlier reports of alleged child sex abuse. Sam’s client was sexually abused in 1977 and 1978 in Albemarle, when he was 14 years old. The defendants are asking that the court dismiss the lawsuit — and related cases — because too much time has passed.

As reported in the Charlotte Observer, Sam remarked in court: “They have to figure out how to put one foot after the other and stay alive. You say to my client: ‘You did nothing (for years).’ My client says to (the diocese): ‘What did you do but turn a willful blind eye?’”