NEW YORK
New York Daily News
By KENNETH LOVETT
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
MAY 10, 2018
ALBANY – Gov. Cuomo threw cold water on a Republican state senator’s proposal to create a $300 million fund earmarked for child sex abuse survivors.
Cuomo raised several concerns, including whether the $300 million is enough.
“You would cap the recovery of people and I don’t believe there should be a cap,” he said. “I believe it should be whatever the damages are.”
Cuomo said he supports a more expansive Child Victims Act bill that he and legislative Democrats have pushed for that targets the abusers themselves and their institutions.
The Daily News reported Thursday that the centerpiece of the legislation introduced by Sen. Catharine Young (R-Chautauqua County) is the creation of a $300 million Child Victim Reconciliation and Compensation Fund that would be run out of the state controller’s office.
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