Bringing a claim in Naperville
Survivors in Naperville regularly assume too much time has passed, or that nothing can be done without a police report. Neither is usually true.
Naperville sits in DuPage County, Illinois, and a civil claim is filed in 18th Judicial Circuit.
The institutions that come up here
DuPage County falls under the Diocese of Joliet. The Illinois Attorney General’s 2023 report named 69 clerics with substantiated child sexual abuse claims in the Diocese of Joliet.
Schools and public bodies here
Naperville Community Unit District 203 and Indian Prairie District 204. IYC Warrenville, the state youth center, has a Naperville address. How claims about IYC Warrenville work.
Where the responsible body is a school district, a county, or the state, the Illinois Tort
Immunity Act comes into the analysis, along with notice requirements that do not apply to a
private organisation. It is the first thing to check and it is easy to get wrong.
Support in Naperville, whether or not you ever call a lawyer
YWCA Metro Patterson and McDaniel: 24-hour hotline 630-971-3927. Addison.
You do not have to speak to a lawyer to get help. RAINN is also on
1-800-656-4673, free and confidential, 24 hours.
Questions people in Naperville ask
Does it matter that it happened a long time ago?
It matters, but not the way most people assume. What governs it is your age at the time, who was responsible, and the particular facts. People regularly assume they are out of time and turn out not to be.
Do I have to decide anything now?
No. You can ask what is possible and stop there. Nothing is set in motion by a question.
I am asking for someone else.
That is fine, and it happens often. We can explain how this works so you can pass it on, with no obligation on them to do anything.
If you would rather not call, the case review form takes about a minute and asks nothing about the abuse itself.