Pass the Adult Survivors Act
May 26, 2021
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Advocates fought for years to get the Child Victims Act passed and signed into law, and we should be thankful they did.
The law, enacted in 2019, opened a window for past victims of child sexual abuse to file civil lawsuits, providing an avenue to justice that otherwise would have been denied by statutes of limitations. Thousands of New Yorkers filed claims under the law’s provision.
Now, new legislation aims to offer the same opportunity for victims abused later in life. The bill is called the Adult Survivors Act, and as Times Union state politics reporter Edward McKinley recently reported, the legislation seems to be stuck in limbo at the Capitol.