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	Abuse Victims Deserve Justice Albany Times Union June 21, 2009 http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=812372&category=OPINION The state Assembly should give serious consideration to the Markey/Duane Child Victims Act now before it. All victims of childhood sexual abuse deserve access to civil court since access to the criminal justice system has been denied them forever by statutes of limitation. It is unconscionable that the leadership of the Roman Catholic Church in New York has seen fit to oppose legislation that would hold sexual predators, no matter their religious affiliation, accountable for their crimes. Did not the bishops promise accountability and transparency in Dallas in 2002? Somewhat disingenuous for an early signatory of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Sister Maureen Paul Turlish Victims' Advocate New Castle, Del.
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