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Child sex abuse is ‘soul murder.’ Massachusetts should lift the statute of limitations.

Por: The Boston Globe Opinion January 09, 2023

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A recent change in Maine law has given people in their 50s, 60s, and 70s a chance to seek justice, at long last, for the sex abuse they endured as children.The measure retroactively eliminated the statute of limitations for civil lawsuits in these cases, allowing victims to seek restitution from the churches and summer camps and Boy Scout troops that had failed them so grievously decades ago.Robert Dupuis, 73, is among those who have filed suit... + full article



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