In 2019, New York legislators passed the Child Victims Act, which made changes to the statute of limitations for victims of child sexual abuse and opened a temporary window for all survivors to seek civil action. The purpose of this bill was to give survivors of child sexual assault the ability to seek justice against…
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Since going into effect in 2019, New York’s Child Victims Act has given thousands of childhood sexual abuse survivors the ability to bring their abusers to justice. The law allows sexual abuse survivors, regardless of their present age or when they were sexually abused, whose claims were previously time-barred a new window of opportunity to…
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