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	Statute of Limitations Questioned after Syracuse Coach Avoids Charges By Mario Diaz WPIX December 7, 2011 http://www.wpix.com/news/wpix-bernie-fine-statute-limitations,0,3056563.story Bernie Fine, the former Syracuse basketball coach and alleged pedophile, will not spend a day behind bars. The Onandanga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick made the shocking yet somewhat expected announcement this afternoon, "The bottom line being that in 02, 03, 04,05 and 2011 Bobby Davis and Mike Lang would have been judged to have been credible, but for the obvious problem of the statute of limitations, their allegations would have resulted in the arrest of Bernie Fine." It's game over for the State of New York. Too much time has passed in order to prosecute. Many believe it is time to reform the statute of limitations. David Chlossey is one of them. The National Director for SNAP, an organization to support victims that came to be as a result of the Catholic Church scandals, has been outspoken about the abuse scandals at Penn State and Syracuse and for good reason, "I was abused for roughly four years age 12 to 16," Chlossey told PIX 11 News on Wednesday. The failure to prosecute in the Syracuse scandal is an eerie repeat of history according to Chlossey, "Like many, many, victims of predator priests, I filed a criminal case it was tossed out on the statute of limitations." For Chlossey and millions of others, it's time to reform the law at the state level, "There is no statute of limitations on murderers, but most murderers are not serial murderers. Let's have no statute of limitations on hold for sex abuse, because most people who sexually prey on kids are in fact serial criminals and will in fact keep doing it again, again and again until they are caught." Yet according to Marvyn Kornberg, one of Manhattan's most prominent defense attorneys, you have a statute of limitations, "because you can't defend allegations from 40 or 50 years ago." This said, the state of California held a moratorium on the statute of limitations involving the victims who were sexually abused as a child. The proposal came to light in New York but according to SNAP, it was killed.
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