NY: ‘No recourse’: Abuse survivors have fewer legal options after Child Victims Act expires
Press-Republican – August 18, 2021
With the deadline to file lawsuits under New York’s Child Victims Act expiring last Saturday, attorneys representing some of the survivors of sexual abuse say victims now have fewer paths for their stories to be heard in court. The Child Victims Act temporarily suspended the state’s time limit on civil lawsuits filed for sexual abuse claims when it was signed into law in 2019. Its deadline was extended by a year in August 2020, largely because of the pandemic.
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