Thursday, January 12, 2017

Cuomo Unveils Plan for Child Victims Act That Would Do Away with Statute of Limitation

 
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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