WEBSTER (NY)
WHAM ABC 13
January 3, 2018
By Carlet Cleare
Webster, N.Y. – A Webster woman, who is an abuse survivor, is pushing for extended statute of limitations on childhood sexual assault victims.
Across the state, advocates of sexual assault victims are pushing the governor to expand the limitations for child victims. Currently, they only have until the age of 23 to bring criminal or civil charges against their abuser.
Rebecca Holley was 13-years-old when a family friend molested her.
“I was staying overnight with his daughter, and that was the first night he molested me,” said Holley.
The abuse lasted for a year, happening at different times while she babysat for his children.
“It happened over and over again,” Holley recounted. “For hours in his house or anyplace that we’d be as families.”
“I never really understood what was happening,” she added.
Once Holley did, she mustered the courage to confront her abuser.
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