Source: The Imprint
"The majority of our legislators understand that survivors of child sex assault — particularly survivors who have experienced that abuse in state, county and city-funded programs — deserve a chance of justice," Assemblymember Dawn Addis said today in an interview with The Imprint. As written, the bill would have prohibited victims as young as 27 from filing suit.
"Once people really understood what this bill was going to do to victims, they decided that it just wasn't something that they wanted to vote to support."