MICHIGAN
WOOD
[with video]
By Tom Hillen
Published: May 5, 2015
LANSING, Mich. (WOOD) — A bill that would retroactively remove the statute of limitations for sex crimes against minors that happened before 2001 went before a Michigan House of Representatives committee on Tuesday.
House Bill 4231 was introduced by state Rep. Holly Hughes, R-Montague, in February after she saw a 24 Hour News 8 story on Randall Doctor.
“When I saw it on television a couple of times, I thought, we can’t just sit around and wait,” Hughes said.
Doctor was a former Cadet leader at Fifth Reformed Church in Muskegon. He has admitted to police that he sexually assaulted between eight and 10 young boys in the 1970s and 1980s.
“I started getting sexually abused when I was 12, and my life changed directions from the first time I met Randy Doctor,” Bryan Derr testified before the House Criminal Justice Committee on Tuesday.
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