Sentences with phrase «victims of childhood sexual abuse who»

The recordings feature survivors and victims of childhood sexual abuse who have ties to the lawmakers» districts, telling callers that the bill has been blocked in the chamber.

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A spokesman for Republicans who lead the state Senate said that doesn't mean that senators will not consider a different version of a measure to give childhood victims of sexual abuse longer to file both criminal and civil lawsuits.

A spokesman for Republicans who lead the State Senate says that doesn't mean that Senators will not consider a different version of a measure to give childhood victims of sexual abuse longer to file both criminal and civil lawsuits.

«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.

In one sample of South African rural youth, the prevalence of physical and sexual abuse was shown to be very high with 94.4 % of men exposed to physical abuse and 39.1 % of women to sexual abuse.46 More than a quarter of the adults who were interviewed endorsed exposure to childhood adversity (parental death, parental separation or parental divorce) in the SASH study.47 Significantly more women were prone to be victims of domestic violence than men.47 Women also reported twice as many suicidal attempts as the male participants in the SASH study.9

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