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New York Daily News
BY LAURA BULT NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Monday, May 2, 2016
New York is “a national shame” when it comes to getting justice for victims of child sex abuse, say people who helped change the antiquated law in other states.
The Empire State lags behind states like Georgia, Massachusetts, Florida and Utah, all of which in the past several years have passed bills that lengthened the time victims have to bring their cases to court.
As New York Assemblywoman Margaret Markey and Sen. Brad Hoylman gear up for a two-day lobbying effort in Albany to support the Child Victims Act — which would eliminate statutes of limitations in child sex abuse cases — the people responsible for changing laws in other states are demanding that New York follow their lead.
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“I don’t understand, frankly, what New York is waiting on,” blasted attorney Michael Dolce, a victim of sexual assault when he was a boy who won a six-year crusade to change statutes of limitations laws in 2010 his home state of Florida.
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