NEW YORK
New York Daily News
BY EDGAR SANDOVAL, SHAYNA JACOBS, LARRY MCSHANE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, March 28, 2016
The law couldn’t protect the adopted son of an accused pedophile during eight years of sexual abuse — or after he finally revealed the details of his secret torment.
The 30-year-old victim discovered recently that his sordid tale was useless to police or prosecutors under New York State’s oft-maligned statute of limitations law.
“The detectives told me they couldn’t do anything about my case, because it’s old,” said the frustrated man. “It made me angry. … How can someone rape children and not face consequences later?”
The law requiring victims to come forward by age 23 with their abuse charges means the man’s foster father, Cesar Gonzales-Mugaburu, can’t be charged with abusing him.
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