NEW YORK
New York Daily News
BY
KENNETH LOVETT
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, June 3, 2017
ALBANY — The organization representing the state’s Catholic bishops says it supports doing away entirely with the legal time-frames to bring criminal charges in sexual abuse cases.
Dennis Poust, a spokesman for the state Catholic Conference headed by Timothy Cardinal Dolan, told the Daily News on Friday that his organization continues to oppose a one-year window to revive old cases, but supports doing away entirely with the statute of limitations pertaining to criminal sex abuse cases.
Poust went even further on Twitter on Saturday, accusing the Assembly Democrats of protecting predators with its new bill unveiled Friday and expected to pass the chamber later this week.
The Assembly bill would increase the current statute of limitations in criminal sex abuse cases by five years — meaning a felony case could only be brought up until a victims’ 28th birthday. For misdemeanors, cases would be allowed until a survivor’s 25th birthday.
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