Editorial: LA County right to pause fraud-plagued settlement payments

Any incident of sexual abuse, most especially of a minor, is inexcusable, and not to be tolerated by our society.

And it’s a sign of health in our society that we now refuse to allow such abuse to be minimized and not addressed by responsible parties, including government social-service agencies that are supposed to protect citizens in their care.

On the one hand it’s understandable why many supported a 2019 California law, Assembly Bill 218, which lifted the statute of limitations...