In recent weeks, the Daily News has been commendably focused on the compelling need to reform the New York statute of limitations for survivors of alleged childhood sexual abuse. New York has one of the most regressive laws on this issue in the entire United States; it bars child victims from seeking justice against predators unless they file a claim before they turn 23.
The unfolding sexual abuse cover-up scandal at Penn State University highlights a troubling but now irrefutable fact: a school, when faced with specific allegations of the rape and sexual assault of children by a prominent employee, is apt to be more concerned about protecting the brand and reputation of the school than in protecting the innocent children in its care.
Last week, the Honorable Leslie Crocker Snyder (ret.), founder of the Manhattan DA’s Sex Crimes Prosecution Bureau and co-author of New York State’s Rape Shield Law, issued her report on sexual abuse that occurred at the elite Horace Mann School in the Bronx in the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s.
If you or someone you know was a victim of childhood sexual abuse in New York State, at any time,
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