Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Friday that New York state will extend the window for victims to file claims under the Child Victims Act for an additional five months, until Jan. 14. Last year, Cuomo signed the Child Victims Act to give ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Catholic officials on Long Island have filed a legal challenge arguing that the Child Victims Act that loosened statutes of limitations on molestation cases violates the New York state constitution. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The Roman Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts, schools and hospitals, the late financier Jeffrey Epstein are some of the targets named in a flurry of sex abuse lawsuits filed Wednesday in New York as the state ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — It was the early 1950s and Peter Vajda was a little boy attending a Catholic boarding school in the Bronx when he says a religious brother molested him. The brother is likely long dead, but the ...

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The New York State court system has designated 45 judges statewide, including 12 in New York City’s five boroughs to prepare for an influx of lawsuits beginning Wednesday (Aug. 14, 2019), when a key provision of New York’s Child Victims ...

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