NEW YORK
The Jewish Daily Forward
[with video]
By Anne Cohen
Published March 08, 2013.
Two employees of Yeshiva University spoke at a hearing Friday in favor of a proposed law that could potentially harm their own school, which is currently under scrutiny because of allegations it failed to address child sexual abuse over several decades at its high school affiliate.
Marci Hamilton, Paul Verkuil Chair in Public Law at the Cardozo Law School of Yeshiva University, and Rabbi Yosef Blau, rabbi and spiritual advisor at Yeshiva University, testified at a New York Assembly hearing in support of the Child Victims Act, which would enable adults who were abused as children to file suits against institutions they believe were negligent in protecting them.
Currently, anyone who failed to file such a suit by their 23rd birthday is barred from doing so by New York State’s statute of limitations on such crimes. The Child Victims Act would abolish those limits for cases going forward and open up a limited, one-year window during those abused in the past could file civil law suits against their alleged abusers and institutions that knew or should have known about such abuse committed by members of their staffs.
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