NEW YORK
New York Daily News
Thanks to some long-overdue moral fortitude by Senate Democrats, maybe, just maybe, time is running out on New York’s absurdly restrictive statute of limitations covering sexual abuse of minors.
New York is a national outlier — and moral disgrace — with respect to abused minors being able to seek justice in either criminal or civil courts. Under current law, the criminal and civil statutes of limitations for a young man or woman to pursue justice expires when they turn 23.
Which gives people haunted by crimes committed against them as children far too little time to reckon with the horror of being victimized.
For a victim seeking redress against an institution that enabled a predator, the deadline is even earlier: The victim must act by the time he or she turns 21. Reform has been blocked thanks to a dastardly pair of only-in-Albany excuses: The Republican-controlled Senate won’t move, they say, because the Democratic-controlled Assembly refuses to do away with a crazy rule protecting public institutions alone from these suits unless notice to sue is filed within 90 days.
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