he told espn the abuse started in 1994 when he was 12 and continued for more than a decade. he waited until 2002 to phone syracuse city police who told him they couldn t pursue charges because the statute of limitations had expired. the city s police chief admits they could have done a better job. he said that in 2002 that the procedures which are in effect today were not in effect back then, the procedures that would mean an allegation would be logged into a computer database. back then they did next to nothing. not only did they not pursue charges. they never started an investigation or filed a report. no paperwork at all. the question is that unusual? the nypd tells suzanne candiotti that its own investigators are required to document any and all interview with alleged victims. one reason sex abuser rarely stop at one victim. if the allegations against bernie fine are true and right now that is a very big if he hasn t been charged with anything gettettyet, but i accu
syracuse city police who told him they couldn t pursue charges because the statute of limitations had expired. the city s police chief admits they could have done better. in 2002, it appears as though we could have done more with this case. let s just face it, right? and now in 2011, i want to make sure that whatever it is that we re required to do by the victims, the people making allegations i want to make sure the proper thing is done. he says new procedures effective today will mean any such allegation will be logged into a computer database. back then they did next to nothing. not only did they not pursue charges. they never started an investigation or filed a report. no paperwork at all. we wanted to know, is that unusual? the new york police department tells cnn s susan candiotti that its own investigators are required to document any and all interview with alleged victims. even if the statue of limitations is expired. one reason sex abuser rarely stop at one victi
he told espn the abuse started in 1984 when he was 12 and continued for more than a decade. he waited until 2002 to phone syracuse city police who told him they couldn t pursue charges because the statute of limitations had expired. the city s police chief admits they could have done better. in 2002, it appears as though we could have done more with this case. let s just face it, right? and now in 2011, i want to make sure that whatever it is that we re required to do by the victims, the people making allegations i want to make sure the proper thing is done. he says new procedures effective today will mean any such allegation will be logged into a computer database. back then they did next to nothing. not only did they not pursue charges. they never started an investigation or filed a report. no paperwork at all. we wanted to know, is that unusual? the new york police department tells cnn s susan candiotti that its own investigators are required to document any and all in
we wanted to know. and are the people willing to go? we ll talk live to sean penn about the situation in a moment. first gary tuchman reports tonight from haiti. reporter: on this golf course in the hills above port-au-prince, there are no more greens or fairways. instead there are up to 60,000 displaced people in a place that regularly floods during rainy season. and it is now rainy season. translator: we don t like living here. but that s the way it is. reporter: anytime now it could start raining for days on end. because this camp is on a steep hillside, people could end up getting washed away. that s why for many weeks there has been talk of getting these and hundreds of thousands of other people in unsafe places out of port-au-prince to a safer place. and this is that safer place. it s an area called kiraly where this weekend haitian families are expected to be bussed in to start new lives. this area is only about 45 minutes away from downtown
time that there will be thousands of people sleeping here, living here where we re standing right now? yes. it s going to happen. reporter: sunday is the target day for the new beginning. gary tuchman, cnn, port-au-prince, haiti. joining us now for the big 360 interview, sean penn, who you just saw in gary s report. sean, your camp needs to move thousands of people. today you all performed, i guess, a test run for the first relocation of about 100 families. how did it go? well, in any case, this is going to be at this stage some level of organized chaos. you know, i find it bewildering that so many of the aid organizations are so overextended and that the completion of one project is difficult to task. and we ve got a couple of days to get things together, but in either case, the way that we re looking at it is the way that we