EXCLUSIVE: Pedophilia victims urge N.Y. to scrap statute of limitations on certain child sex abuse charges

NEW YORK
New York Daily News

BY LARRY MCSHANE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Tuesday, March 29, 2016

It wasn’t until after his 33rd birthday that the crippling flashbacks began for Michael DeSantis.

The one where he’s a grammar school kid, innocently riding his skateboard to the apartment of a parish priest. Once inside, he’s raped by one cleric and forced to perform oral sex on another.

Or the one where a voice commands, “Give him God’s love,” before forcing the boy to service a third priest.

Or the time he was targeted by yet another priest inside Our Lady of Mercy Church in upstate Colonie — his family parish, where he was an altar boy and his mother worked for years.

The married father of five, first sexually violated when he was 9, is among a growing number of pedophilia victims urging the state to scrap its statute of limitations on certain child sex abuse charges.

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