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Cuomo Supports Child Victims Act

By Chris McKenna
Times Herald-Record
January 15, 2019

https://www.recordonline.com/news/20190115/cuomo-supports-child-victims-act

Gov. Andrew Cuomo invoked Pope Francis in his budget speech on Tuesday as he proclaimed his support for a bill to help victims of child sexual abuse that New York’s Catholic Church has opposed and that is headed for approval after a dozen years in limbo.

Cuomo, identifying himself as a Catholic and former altar boy, said he valued his relationship to the church and found “painful” his political differences with its leaders. But he then read aloud a quote condemning child sexual abuse that turned out to have come from the pope, and said, “I say we stand with Pope Francis and we pass the Child Victims Act.”

Cuomo included a bill version in his budget that would extend New York’s statutes of limitations for future criminal or civil cases against abusers. It also opens a one-year window in which all past victims can sue their abusers and culpable institutions, a provision that the Catholic Church and other institutions have opposed and that led Senate Republicans to block the bill for years.

Democrats ousted Republicans from power in the Senate in November’s elections, clearing the way for passage of the legislation this year.

 

 

 

 

 




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