NEW YORK
New York Daily News
BY GLENN BLAIN STEPHEN REX BROWN
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil — and for good measure — confront no evil.
In other words, Albany’s three men in a room still don’t have time to talk about the rights of child sex abuse victims.
One refused to meet with a sex abuse survivor. One had no public schedule and his office didn’t return calls. A third was so annoyed that a reporter dared to ask him about the issue, he made it sound like he was under attack.
“No, stop,” whined Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx), waving off a Daily News reporter on Wednesday.
The News wanted to know if the Assembly was going to take action on efforts to reform the statute of limitations on child sex abuse. Currently, child sex abuse survivors in New York are unable to bring civil or criminal charges against their abusers after their 23rd birthday.
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