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Article Category: 2007 February
Lawmakers Consider Creating Two-Year Window For Civil Suits By Abuse Victims
Description: Supporters of a bill that would give child sexual abuse victims their day in court testified in Augusta Tuesday. The bill creat
Article originally prepared on : 28 February 2007
Lawmakers Consider Creating Two-Year Window For Civil Suits By Abuse Victims
Supporters of a bill that would give child sexual abuse victims their day in court testified in Augusta Tuesday. The bill creates a one time, two year window for anyone sexually abused as a child to file a civil suit.
Maine has already done away with the statute of limitations for cases dating back to 1993. This measure would allow people abused before that to go to court.
Those opposed to the bill, including the catholic diocese, say it places an unreasonable burden on organizations like schools and churches. They say it allows lawsuits in cases that might be decades old and difficult to prove or defend.
But the bill's sponsor sees it differently.
"I think its unreasonable for us to allow people who molested children to not be held accountable, and that's what this is all about. It begins there and it ends there. And if somebody commited that horrible act against a child, whether it was thirty years ago, forty years ao or today, they need to be held accountable for it," said Senator Ethan Strimling.
Sex abuse survivor Barbara Blaine founded SNAP, the Survivors Network of Victims of Abuse by Priests. She says like many other sex abuse survivors, she wasn't able to talk about what she suffered as a child until she was an adult.
"My perpetrator is still alive and out there and what we need to do is to allow the adults in Maine who are capable today of reporting their perpetrator to do so," said Blaine.
Supporters say the bill is modeled after a law in California, where about 800 abuse victims came forward to file lawsuits.
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