CORNWALL-ON-HUDSON (NY)
News 12 Hudson Valley
August 30, 2018
Local lawmakers from both sides of the aisle rallied in Cornwall-on-Hudson Thursday to urge the state Senate to pass the Child Victims Act.
Both Democrats and Republicans came together to call on the state Senate to pass the act they say is critical to bringing justice to sexual abuse survivors.
Assemblyman James Skoufis (D) joined Orange County Legislator Mike Anagnostakis (R) and children protection advocates to demand that the state Senate pass this act. If signed into law, they say it would allow prosecutors to bring up criminal cases against predators up to a victim’s 23rd birthday and civil cases up until a victim’s 50th birthday.
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