NEW YORK
Riverdale Press
May 18, 2016
By Alice Guilhamon
Local activists and a delegation of Jewish leaders went to Albany earlier this month to lobby for passage of the Child Victims Act, the legislation to end the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse cases and to open a window for past cases to be prosecuted.
Rabbi Ari Hart of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale joined the group in the state capital.
“This is an issue that cuts across every demographic and every faith and all sectors of society,” he said.
He and his colleagues represented 150 rabbis and Jewish leaders who signed a letter of support for reforming the state’s statute of limitations, or SOL, on child sex abuse. Rabbi Hart said about 50 people participated in the activism on May 3 and 4.
Activists and politicians who support the Child Victims Act spoke. Speakers included Jim Scanlan, a clergy abuse survivor depicted in “Spotlight.” The film was screened as part of the lobbying days.
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