Sentences with phrase «sexual abuse victims sue»

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In its wake, alleged victims of sexual abuse are suing the archdiocese and other high - ranking church officials because the report states the archdiocese knowingly withheld the identity of predator priests.

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.

As a sexual abuse crisis engulfs New York City public schools, Assembly Member Margaret Markey is again promoting a bill to make it easier for sexual abuse victims to sue almost anyone — except public schools.

Meanwhile, Catholic bishops have spent on average $ 300,000 a year lobbying lawmakers in New York on a variety of topics, including against passage of the Child Victims Act, which would change the statute of limitations on civil and criminal cases of child sexual abuse and allow victims a one - year window to sue over potentially decades - old allegVictims Act, which would change the statute of limitations on civil and criminal cases of child sexual abuse and allow victims a one - year window to sue over potentially decades - old allegvictims a one - year window to sue over potentially decades - old allegations.

Early voting as allowed by 37 other states, reform of New York's archaic election laws, allowing victims of sexual abuse cases to reopen their cases and sue their abusers, common sense reforms to New York's gun laws, so many issues on the table that need to be addressed.

What's less commonly known is that victims of sexual assault or abuse can sue the offender in civil court to claim compensation from their injuries; even after the criminal case has completed.

Persons who, as children, teenagers and / or adults, are the victims of sexual abuse have the right to sue their abusers and, if applicable, the institutions or organizations that placed these abusers in a position to abuse them.