Testifies at budget hearing on Child Victims Act, opposes look-back window for survivors

A February 15 Quinnipiac poll finds that 90% of New Yorkers support the Child Victims Act

NEW YORK (TIP): The New York State Catholic Conference just released its testimony from the joint Legislative Hearing regarding the 2018-2019 Public Protection Budget, which addressed the Child Victims Act (CVA).

While the Conference supports a prospective extension of criminal statute of limitations for survivors, it hypocritically continues to reject providing any avenue of relief for survivors over the age of 23 whose claims have expired, claiming:

“This extraordinary provision would force institutions to defend alleged conduct decades ago about which they have no knowledge, and in which they had no role, potentially involving employees long retired, dead or infirm, based on information long lost, if it ever existed. To be clear, this provision would allow claims from even the 1940s or 1950s to be resurrected. Statutes of limitation are an essential protection of American law because they ensure that claims can be fairly adjudicated in a timely manner based on credible evidence.”