| Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
Courier Times
July 1, 2016
http://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/opinion/editorial/two-steps-forward-one-step-back/article_29d1d34b-ecf6-5928-b020-06ebd1ff5a0c.html
Under a controversial and now emasculated bill passed by a state Senate committee, future victims of child sexual abuse will have until the age of 50 to sue their attackers. Former victims would be out of luck, however.
That's because most members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to remove a provision of a bill that would have altered the statute of limitations, enabling victims who were attacked as far back as the 1970s to sue their abusers. The alteration comes in the wake of enormous pressure on lawmakers from the Catholic Church, which is worried about a spate of crippling lawsuits, although the official reason for Church opposition is based on a constitutional argument.
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