SOUTH DAKOTA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Posted by David Clohessy on February 07, 2012
Yesterday, SD lawmakers refused to support a bill that would have made kids safer from child sexual predators. Shame on them.
South Dakota remains the only state in the union to have gone backwards in terms of child safety in the last decade.
Besides jail, two things keep kids safe from child predators – publicly exposing predators and deterring others from concealing their crimes. There’s no better way to do this than by reforming archaic, arbitrary, predator-friendly laws like the statute of limitations.
Victims of these horrific crimes need time to understand, cope with and report these horrific crimes. They are often trapped in cycles of guilt, depression, substance abuse and other destructive behaviors. When they finally muster the courage to step forward, they find that the statute has run and the predator is free to prey
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