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Let’s give sexual abuse justice time

By Kevin Cullen

 |  Globe Columnist  

  March 20, 2012

If timing is everything, Kathy Picard’s is lousy. Twice she has been denied the ability to hold her alleged abuser accountable. Massachusetts is one of the few states that has a statute of limitations that allows sexual offenders to hide behind something called a calendar. There’s growing support on Beacon Hill to change this, but the House chairman of the Judiciary Committee is not in favor of the bill, which may see it stall.

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