DENVER (CO)
Fox 31

February 5, 2018

By Joe St. George

DENVER — The Prairie Middle School case involving school administrators being accused of not reporting child abuse to police took center stage at the state Capitol on Monday.

The issue is the belief the case against the administrators soon might be dropped because of the statute of limitations.

It’s currently 18 months and the incident involving reporting at Prairie Middle School happened in 2014.

State Sen. Rhonda Fields is bringing a bill that would extend the statute of limitations from 18 months to five years.

Originally, Fields introduced a bill to extend it until discovery by police, but her amended bill capped it at five years.

“Right now in some scenarios they are not reporting it, they are sweeping it under the rug and allowing someone who molests kids or someone who rapes kids to go on,” Fields…