NEW JERSEY
NJ.com
By Greg Wright | For NJ.com
TRENTON — State Sen. Joseph Vitale walked with a group of about 20 activists from Pennsylvania to the New Jersey’s Statehouse Sunday to vocalize their opposition to the state’s statute of limitations for civil actions related to sex abuse.
The group also wants New Jersey to pass a pending bill that would eliminate the time constraints for legal actions.
“We need to protect victims child sexual abuse and help them seek justice,” Sen. Vitale (D-Middlesex), who is the primary sponsor of the legislation, said. “This will require changing the law and expanding the civil statute of limitations for this crime.”
The rally began after the group, comprised of individuals and members of The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), Road to Recovery and Male Survivor, completed a walk from Morrisville, Pa. to the Statehouse.
There, sexual assault survivors from New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York spoke about their own struggles in seeking justice and returning to a life of normalcy after becoming victims.
Currently, sex abuse victims have only two years to sue after discovering the link between their abuse to other problems, such as depression, addiction or divorce.
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