CALIFORNIA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

For immediate release: Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Statement by Joelle Casteix of Orange County California, SNAP Southern California director (949-322-7434, jcasteix@gmail.com)

We applaud a California legislator’s move to reform the state’s predator-friendly statute of limitations in sexual violence cases.

[Los Angeles Times]

To us, this bill is about prevention, not justice. If passed, more predators will be exposed and more crimes will be prevented. It’s just that simple.

Every single person who has been sexually traumatized should have his or her “day in court.” Every single offender should be exposed and punished. But even more, every single adult and child in California should be protected from rapists and molesters. If only one man, woman or child avoids decades of devastating pain because of this proposal, it will have all been worth it.

This notion, raised by defense lawyers, of “balancing…