NEW YORK
New York Daily News
BY LARRY MCSHANE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Monday, May 2, 2016
New York’s child sex abuse victims — silenced for decades by state law — will shout their message with a single voice this week to Albany politicians: Do something this time!
“I don’t understand why anybody wouldn’t pass this law,” said Mark Taylor, a victim who plans to join those lobbying for the Child Victims Act. “It’s a law that affects people. There’s no money coming out of the taxpayer’s pockets. Why not pass a bill that protects people?”
Proponents of the long-delayed, oft-rejected bill sponsored by Queens Assemblywoman Margaret Markey and Manhattan state Sen. Brad Hoylman are hopeful the bill will finally become a law. The pair will lead a two-day effort to convince state politicians that the time has come for its passage.
Supporters and victims like Taylor, 50, will arrive Tuesday for the two-day effort.
Taylor was sodomized by his Bronx high school principal, and still suffers from anxiety attacks and posttraumatic stress disorder. His $10 million lawsuit was derailed by state law.
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