BOSTON (MA)
Boston Globe
March 21, 2012|By Milton J. Valencia
After years of resistance and public criticism, state legislative leaders agreed Tuesday to let the full House of Representatives vote on an increasingly popular proposal to eliminate the statute of limitations on prosecuting child sexual abuse crimes.
The measure as proposed would essentially eliminate the deadlines that victims have in filing complaints of child sex abuse, a limit that had been set to protect alleged predators from false claims based on foggy memories.
Under criminal law, prosecutions of certain cases are limited after 27 years, and they are limited to as few as three years in some civil court cases, according to advocates of the new proposal.
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