NEW YORK
New York Daily News
BY GLENN BLAIN STEPHEN REX BROWN
Top Democrats in Albany still won’t tell survivors where they can stand on the decade-old effort to reform the state’s statute of limitations law on child sex abuse claims.
A long day of lobbying legislators Monday did not yield any new hope for advocates as they left meeting after meeting with nothing more than rejections and earfuls of double-talk from politicians — some of whom remain noncommittal on the issue.
Senate Republicans remained opposed to reform — even after hearing survivors recall the horrors they endured as children.
After just two meetings before lunch, pessimism had set in among the six advocates that they’d made no progress persuading Albany powerbrokers to allow the reform to come to even come to a vote before the legislative session ends June 16.
“I don’t know how we are going to move these guys,” Kathryn Robb, 55, said after she and other child sex abuse survivors met with state Senate Deputy Majority Leader John DeFrancisco (R-Syracuse) and staff for Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R-Long Island).
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