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Ohio bill: New chance at justice for child sex abuse victims
Ohio bill: New chance at justice for child sex abuse victimsA former altar boy abused by a Cincinnati priest spoke publicly before lawmakers for the first time Tuesday – six months after his Catholic perpetrator was sentenced to seven years in prison. Lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee listened to Neyer’s story Tuesday during the second hearing on Senate Bill 226, a bill that aims to give childhood survivors of sexual violence more time to criminally charge their perpetrators. Under current Ohio law, once a childhood sexual abuse victim turns 18, they have 25 years to file criminal charges against a perpetrator, allowing them to prosecute until the age of 43. This would give victims an opportunity to file criminal charges until the age of 51. “The current statute of limitations starts at 18,” said Chris Graham, a childhood sex abuse survivor and one of the leading proponents of reforming Ohio’s statute of limitation laws. “We said, ‘Well, actually, the human brain doesn’t fully develop until 26.'” While 86% of child sexual abuse goes unreported nationwide, victims and survivors who choose to report don’t come forward until an average age of 52, according to a March 2020 report from the child protection think tank CHILD USA. Even as an adult man, Neyer said he was afraid to speak about what happened to him as a child. The statute of limitation laws in place, he said, serve only to protect abusers.
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