Wilson, a survivor of child sexual abuse, pushed a law to let all adult victims childhood sex abuse sue institutions that harbored predators, regardless of when the abuse occurred. (Brian Witte/AP)A Senate panel on Wednesday voted down a bill that would have let childhood sex abuse victims of any age sue institutions that harbored their attackers. The legislation, proposed amid a global clergy sex abuse scandal, had passed the House of Delegates overwhelmingly last month. The 2017 law raised the statute of limitations for civil sex abuse cases, increasing the age victims can file from 25 to 38 years old. What caused the clergy sex abuse crisis?

Source: Washington Post April 04, 2019 00:11 UTC