NEW YORK
New York Daily News
KENNETH LOVETT
DAILY NEWS ALBANY
BUREAU CHIEF
Thursday, June 16, 2016
ALBANY — While state leaders appear ready to turn their backs on child sex abuse victims again this year, they found time to shower love on female hunters, brunch-goers and pet lovers.
Barring a last-minute miracle, the state Legislature was preparing to end its session on Friday with no deal on a bill to make it easier for child sex abuse survivors to seek justice — something victims and advocates have pushed for a decade.
But lawmakers this year did manage to pass an array of apparently more pressing legislation.
Among them is a bill to allow the use of fluorescent pink, instead of just orange, hunting attire in order to attract more women and young people into the woods.
Kathryn Robb, a child sex abuse survivor and advocate, was flabbergasted.
“It’s more important to fashionably dress female hunters than it is to protect children from sexual abuse and give victims of sexual abuse justice?” Robb said. “Wow. That is something much greater than outrageous.”
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