NEW YORK
Greenpoint Star
Since 2006, Assemblywoman Marge Markey has been pushing legislation that would extend the time that victims of childhood sexual abuse can come forward and sue their abusers.
Markey’s bill would extend the limit to the victim’s 28th birthday, five years longer than is currently allowed. Given the recent sex scandals at Penn State and Syracuse universities, where it took the abused well into their adulthood to come to terms with the torment they suffered, extending the deadline seems like a no-brainer.
One need look no further than our own backyard to see common sense evidence of this. Former Christ the King basketball coach Bob Oliva last year pled guilty to sexually abusing a boy connected to Oliva’s well-respected basketball program.
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