MASSACHUSETTS
The Republic
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
June 18, 2014
BOSTON — The Massachusetts House has approved a bill to extend by more than 30 years the statute of limitations for victims of childhood sex abuse to file lawsuits against their alleged attackers or the institutions that employed them.
The measure passed Wednesday on a unanimous vote and now goes to the Senate.
Current state law only gives victims until age 21 to file civil actions against alleged abusers. The bill would raise that age up to 53.
The proposal would also increase from three years to seven years the period in which a lawsuit can be filed after the recovery of so-called repressed memories of childhood abuse.
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