NEW YORK
Post-Star
May 6, 2018
Sometimes it takes a painfully long time to do the right thing.
That gives us hope that the time has come to pass the Child Victims Act.
The New York State Assembly voted 124-9 this week to pass a statute that gives victims of child molestation a longer window to seek justice. The proposal was first considered 10 years ago in New York.
Both local Assembly members — Dan Stec and Carrie Woerner — voted in favor of the measure.
A Siena College poll earlier this year found 79 percent of those polled support the measure.
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