If you only read the newspapers and watched the TV news shows, you’d think that sexual abuse of children was limited to the Catholic church, and was worse now more than ever. You’d be wrong, on both counts. And The Anchoress notes something eye-opening.<\/p>\n
\nIn New York, Queens Assemblywoman Margaret Markey<\/strong> routinely presents a bill which seeks to open a year-long \u201cwindow\u201d into the statute of limitations on child sex-abuse cases, allowing victims whose cases may go back as far as 40 years to bring suit for damages.<\/p>\n
Because the bill has -until now- always been limited by Markey to impact the churches<\/a>, exclusively, it always either failed or been shelved. It is difficult to pass a bill that essentially finds some sexual abuse victims to be more worthy of redress than others.<\/p>\n