In most cases, personal injury claims or lawsuits are subject to a strict window of time or “statute of limitation” after which the injured party is no longer eligible to file. These statutes of limitations can vary from state to state but typically range between 2 and 4 years. However, California has made an exception for a certain kind of personal injury case, due to the fact that the injury itself often takes significant time for survivors...
Does child sexual abuse become less of a punishable crime as time passes? Should there be a statute of limitations to put time limits on when the victim can file charges? Pennsylvania State Rep. Mark Rozzi put this another way when he said, "Do you stand with victims, or do you stand with pedophiles of the institutions that protect those pedophiles?"
According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, it appears the Pennsylvania state House has chosen to...