By Kenneth Lovett
ALBANY — Stepping up to the plate for child sex abuse survivors, Gov.
Cuomo weighed in Wednesday for the first time with his own plan to help
victims seek legal recourse as adults.
Cuomo’s version of the Child Victims Act would do away entirely with
the statute of limitations on prosecutions of those who abused children.
It would also allow victims to bring civil lawsuits for 50 years from
when their attacks took place and would open up a one-year look-back
window for survivors who under current law can no longer bring cases to
do so.
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Source: The New York Daily News (via The Empire Report)
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