M.E.D.I.A A.D.V.I.S.O.R.Y
Three-Day Push for Bill to Give Child Sex
Abuse Victims More Time to
Get Justice, Expose Hidden Pedophiles; Press
Events and Lobby Day to
Feature Victims and Advocates, Including Former
Syracuse
Assemblywoman
Margaret Markey will hold three events next week in Albany
All in LOB Press Room, NYS State Legislative Office
Building
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At
the press conference on Tuesday, February 28, 2:00 p.m. , Markey will
introduce victims in sports-related cases, including two men who charge they
were abused as ball boys by by a Syracuse
University New York City
The
following day, Wednesday, February 29, will be CVA Lobby Day as the
supporters of the bill from across New
York State Albany 1:00 pm ,
the Assemblywoman will stand with victims of abuse at the hands of religious
organizations who will talk about their ordeals. Speakers will include victims
who successfully took their case against a pedophile to neighboring Massachusetts New
York Brooklyn . On Thursday,
March 1, 1:00 p.m. , the focus will
be on broader legal and social issues relating to statutes of limitations and
speakers will include a past president of the New York State Bar Association.
“Laws
in New York
will continue
to abuse yet more children in the future,” the Assemblywoman said.
Markey’s
Child Victims Act has been adopted by the Assembly three times, but failed to
succeed in the State Senate. The bill will extend the current statute of
limitations by five years, to age 28 and will also completely suspend the civil
statute of limitations for one year. This will help expose older crimes and
make it possible to identify previously hidden abusers through the discovery
process in court, exposing them, ensuring that they can never abuse a child again.
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