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Survivor Beth McCabe said she hopes the awareness created by the #MeToo movement and sexual harassment of women will help spur senators on the fence to realize that childhood sexual abuse victims need justice, too.

Survivor Beth McCabe says she hopes the awareness created by the #MeToo movement and sexual harassment of women will help spur senators on the fence to realize that childhood sexual abuse victims need justice, too.

The same goes for the Child Victims Act, which would make it easier for the survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits by expanding the statute of limitations.

For a decade, advocates for survivors of childhood sexual abuse had pressed lawmakers to lift the statute of limitations, which now requires most victims to sue by age 23.

Democratic Senate candidate Alison Boak on Wednesday was endorsed by the political action committee pushing for the approval of the Child Victims Act, a measure designed to make it easier for the survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits.

Kathryn Robb, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse by her brother, at the state capital in Albany as part of a lobbying effort to pass the Child Victims Act on Tuesday, May 3, 2016.

«It's a shame today that the Senate chose not to side with the survivors of childhood sexual abuse, and instead continued to aid and abet predators by refusing to fix New York's broken statute of limitations for these abominable crimes,» said Sen. Brad Hoylman (D - Manhattan), who sponsored the Child Victims Act.

However, a new study by the Universities of Bristol and Durham for the NSPCC, hopes to refocus attention on what can be done to help the victims of childhood sexual abuse.

Victims of childhood (or any other kind of) sexual abuse can only begin to heal when their story is acknowledged, when they no longer feel burdened by carrying the secret.