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Article: Remedies for Victims of Sexual Abuse
Article: Connecticut version of Remedies article
Article: Arizona - "Florez Revisited: Arizona's New Approach to Extending Statutes of Limitation in Childhood Sexual Abuse Cases"
Legal Resources for Victims of Sexual Abuse
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Susan K. Smith
David M. Moore
Attorneys at Law
Mediation, Collaboration
Victims' Remedies
Injury Cases
Smith & Moore, LLC
www.SmithMooreLLC.com
smith-lawfirm.com
24 East Main Street
(Route 44)
Old Avon Village North
Avon, CT 06001
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Statutes of Limitations
for Child Sexual Abuse
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Washington
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| Wash. Rev. Code Ann. § 4.16.340 |
Within 3 years of the act, 3 years of age 18, or 3 years of discovery. Text and Commentary on Statute by Attorney Jo-Hanna Read.
The discovery time period begins to run from the time "the victim discovered or reasonably should have discovered that the injury or condition was caused by said act." Washington courts have interpreted the statute liberally in light of the Legislature's intention to "to provide a broad avenue of redress for victims of childhood sexual abuse who too often were left without a remedy under previous statutes of limitation."
In C.J.C. vs. Corporation of the Catholic Bishop of Yakima et al 138 Wn.2d 699, 985 P.2d 262 (1999), the Washington Supreme Court ruled that the extended statute of limitations is applicable to negligent third parties as well as the perpetrators of the abuse.
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Attorney Jo-Hanna Read,
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| Date of Last Revision |
07/04/09 |
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