CALIFORNIA
Valley Public Radio
By MAX PRINGLE
A bill that would extend California’s statute of limitations on civil suits for victims of childhood sexual abuse has stalled in an Assembly Committee.
Democratic Senator Jim Beall says his bill would bring a measure of justice to people who may just now be coming to terms with childhood trauma.
“When they discover later in life, through therapy or whatever, that they were attacked by somebody, it allows them to go to civil court,” says Beall.
Under the bill, anyone 26 and older would get an extra year to seek damages against institutions that failed to prevent abuse.
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