NEW YORK
New York Daily News
BY MICHAEL O’KEEFFE
A high-profile former prosecutor is railing against state lawmakers for protecting pedophiles with their inaction on the statute of limitations law.
Former Westchester County District Attorney Jeanine Pirro faced the harsh reality of the free-pass statute when she went after pedophile priests in 2002.
The grand jury she empaneled then made no criminal charges — but it urged the state Legislature to eliminate the paralyzing statute of limitations on child sex abuse cases.
Fourteen years later, Pirro said, lawmakers are still lollygagging.
“I am disappointed with the thought that legislators are more concerned about lobbyists for certain organizations and getting reelected than justice for sexual abuse victims,” a furious Pirro said in an exclusive interview with the Daily News on Wednesday. “Shame on you. Shame on you.”
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