Another Try to Update New York's Child Sex Abuse Statutes
Advocates for people who were sexually abused as children are trying again to reform New York state's sex abuse laws. The state Assembly and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have agreed on a bill that would extend...
View Article3 Billboards for the Child Victims Act in New York State
Activist Kat Sullivan talks about her campaign, using billboards, to advocate that New York pass the Child Victims Act, which would extend the statute of limitations for cases and provide a one-year...
View ArticleWoman Uses Billboards to Speak Out About Sexual Abuse, Pressure Lawmakers
After New York state law failed her, Kat Sullivan said she needed to take matters into her own hands. Inspired by the movie "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" Sullivan paid for three digital...
View ArticlePassing the Child Victims Act
The state legislature will be passing the long-delayed Child Victims Act on Monday. The bill raises the statutes of limitations for victims of child sexual abuse and creates a one-year window within...
View ArticleTry, Try Again, Keep Trying: Child Victim Act Approved in Albany
A bill allowing people who were sexually assaulted as children to take action against their abusers even decades later is finally headed to the governor's desk more than a decade's worth of attempts....
View ArticleGov. Cuomo on Gun Control Bills, Child Victims Act and More
Governor of New York (D) Andrew Cuomo, talks about a package of gun control bills expected to pass the NYS legislature, congestion pricing and the MTA, plus celebrates the passage of the Child Victims...
View ArticleFor These Lawmakers, the Child Victims Act Is Personal
As New York lawmakers began to vote on the highly-anticipated Child Victims Act on Monday, four lawmakers used their floor time to speak publicly about their experiences with sexual abuse, and convince...
View ArticleThe 'Lookback Window' Opens
Mara Silvers, WNYC's All Things Considered producer, talks about the expected flood of lawsuits as the Child Victims Act goes into effect on August 14 with its one-year "lookback window" extending the...
View ArticleWave of Child Sex Abuse Lawsuits Expected As New York's Child Victims Act...
After years of pressure from survivors, advocates, and lawmakers, New York’s Child Victims Act has officially gone into effect. As of Wednesday, Aug. 14, the statute of limitations for survivors of...
View ArticleWindow Opens for Hundreds of Lawsuits by Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivors
The Roman Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, schools and hospitals, the late financier Jeffrey Epstein are some of the targets named in a flurry of sex abuse lawsuits filed Wednesday in New York as the...
View ArticleSurvivors of Child Sex Abuse Get Hearing Under New Law
Ana López-Wagner, child sex abuse advocate, Catalina Cruz, New York State Assemblywoman, and Rodneyse Bichotte, New York State Assembly member (D-42), includes East talk about the hundreds of lawsuits...
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