Headmaster: OK child-abuse bill

NEW YORK
New York Daily News

BY MICHAEL O’KEEFE / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

MONDAY, MAY 13, 2013

Horace Mann’s headmaster says he supports a bill that might open the scandal-stained school to lawsuits by sex abuse victims.

But Tom Kelly has reservations about the Child Victims Act, which would eliminate the statute of limitations and open a one-year window for survivors of past abuse to file criminal and civil cases.

“Yes, I’m a supporter, but . . . the bill in its current form falls short,” Kelly said in a recent statement.

Kelly said the bill by Assemblywoman Margaret Markey (D-Queens) falls short because it does not address abuse suffered by students at government-funded programs and schools.

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