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Syracuse.com
By Mike McAndrew | mmcandrew@syracuse.com
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — A minority owner of the Vernon Downs racetrack says he’ll spend $100,000 this year to unseat state Sen. John DeFrancisco and other senators who won’t pass a bill to allow child sexual abuse survivors like himself sue their abusers.
DeFrancisco, the Senate deputy majority leader from Syracuse, is going to be the No. 1 target of the new Fighting for Children PAC that Gary Greenberg says he’s in the process of forming.
Greenberg, a 57-year-old businessman from New Baltimore, said he’s targeting DeFrancisco because of the senator’s outspoken opposition to a pending bill that would eliminate the civil and criminal statute of limitations for child sexual abuse crimes going forward and create a one-year window for victims to sue for abuses committed decades ago.
“There are a lot of cases where these perpetrators, because of the statute of limitations, have been able to get away with it and are still out there abusing,” Greenberg said. “This would out some of these people. There may be instances where they’re still abusing and it could be stopped.”
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