NEW YORK
Wall Street Journal
By SOPHIA HOLLANDER
June 11, 2015
A renewed drive to overhaul New York’s statute of limitations for sexual-abuse cases involving minors appears to have stalled in the state Legislature, despite attracting a record number of sponsors this year, advocates said.
Legislative attempts to revamp the statute date back a decade. Versions of the bill have passed four times in the Assembly, but never received a vote in the Senate. The legislative session ends on June 17.
Under current law, people who were sexually abused as minors have five years after they turn 18 to file a claim against their alleged abuser.
The bill, which attracted more than 60 sponsors in the Assembly, including more than a dozen Republicans, would eliminate civil and criminal statutes of limitations for sex crimes against minors.
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