With just nine days left before the state’s budget is due, Sen. Brad Hoylman, D-Manhattan, and other Democratic lawmakers are demanding that their version of the Child Victims Act (S.809) with a one-year look back window be included in the final budget. In recent years, many pieces of legislation similar […]
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Actor and activist Corey Feldman challenging Senate GOP on Child Victims Act
Actor Corey Feldman and Team USA volleyball player Sarah Powers-Barnhard have joined the fight to push Senate Republicans to pass the Child Victims Act. A coalition called “New Yorkers Against Hidden Predators” is gaining supporters in its drive to finally pass the Child Victims Act (S.809) this legislative session. Feldman […]
Advocates, lawmakers launch early effort to pass Child Victims Act in 2018
Survivors, legislators and children’s advocates are organizing early with the goal of finally getting the Child Victims Act across the finish line and on to the governor’s desk before the end of the 2018 legislative session. One group, New Yorkers Against Hidden Predators, kicked off its advocacy for the coming […]
Letter: “I realized I was doing what my abuser did to me 46 years ago. I was blaming myself.”
I just spent half a year advocating for the Child Victims Act alongside a group of dedicated and courageous survivors and supporters. We went wherever we could to be seen and heard. We spoke of our own experiences in order to show how children of today and tomorrow would be […]
Advocates confused and angry over handling of the Child Victims Act
Activists pushing for the long-contested Child Victims Act were left wondering the motives of lawmakers after a week in which Gov. Andrew Cuomo introduced and then questioned the chances, of his own program bill. “The advocates feel his office hoodwinked us by appeasing victims with his program bill and than […]
Pressure mounts on Senate Republicans to pass Child Victims Act
Senate Democrats held a press conference Thursday urging Senate Republican Conference to get behind legislation to allow child sex abuse victims more time to take their abuser to court. Advocates and legislators, including Linda Rosenthal, D-Manhattan, sponsor of the Assembly Child Victims Act (A.5885-a) that passed by a telling bipartisan […]
Hoylman calls for floor vote on Child Victims Act
With the legislative session winding down, advocates as well as legislators, are looking to Governor Cuomo to cut through the cacophony and use his political influence to pass a bill that would expand protections for survivors of childhood sexual abuse. A version of the Child Victims Act passed by the […]
Church supports alternative to Child Victims Act
As lawmakers prepare for the closing weeks of session, victims of childhood sexual abuse are pushing once again for a controversial bill that would give them a chance to seek justice for decades-old cases. The Child Victims Act (S.809) would allow victims to file legal action against their abusers, regardless […]