SD- Victims applaud legislative panel

By David Clohessy
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
February 19, 2014

http://www.snapnetwork.org/sd_victims_applaud_legislative_panel

Yesterday, a South Dakota legislative panel rejected changes in the state's child safety laws.

We applaud them for voting down a measure (Senate Bill 130) that would have protected those who commit and conceal child sex crimes.

http://www.snapnetwork.org/sd_snap_urges_lawmakers_to_reject_sb_130#reactions

Legislators should be making it easier, not harder, for child sex abuse victims to expose predators and protect kids.

Statues of limitations protect wrong doers. They give criminals more incentive to intimidate victims, threaten witnesses, discredit whistleblowers, destroy evidence and conceal crimes. They should be relaxed or reformed, not expanded.