NEW YORK
New York Daily News
BY EDGAR SANDOVAL, LARRY MCSHANE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, April 12, 2016
The nightmares still surface in the darkness, leaving Mark Taylor awake and alone with his horrific memories of high school.
The Bronx man remembers his predatory principal sexually abusing him for three soul-crushing years, starting when he was a 14-year-old sophomore.
And though Irwin Goldberg confessed on videotape to sodomizing Taylor, New York State’s statute of limitations allowed the principal to dodge criminal charges and a $10 million lawsuit. Victims abused as children have until their 23rd birthday to seek criminal or civil penalties.
“It’s very unfair,” said Taylor, 50. “It’s very important that they change the law. I still have anxiety attacks and PTSD. And I can’t get nothing — disability, Social Security, not even a sleeping pill.”
State Senate Democrats plan to introduce a bill that would eliminate the statute of limitation for criminal or civil cases. The bill, sponsored by Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers) and Sen. Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan), would also remove the 90-day window required to file a notice of claim — the first step in a lawsuit — against a public or government entity. The Catholic Church has long argued that the 90-day requirement for public entities was unfair to private institutions.
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