NEW YORK
New York Daily News
KENNETH LOVETT
GLENN BLAIN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Thursday, June 2, 2016,
ALBANY — Finally, some good news for child sexual abuse victims in their fight to obtain justice.
Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie (D-Bronx) said his chamber is working on new legislation that would eliminate or significantly extend New York’s statute of limitations for child abuse cases.
“I think we have been having good, productive, conversations,” Heastie said Thursday. “We may be looking to come up with a draft of a bill that would be acceptable to the conference that I think would accomplish a lot of the things that the victims are looking for.”
Heastie provided few details but said the new bill would likely include some sort of a lookback provision that gives victims a chance to revive old cases — a key component sought by survivors and advocates who want to change the law.
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