Cenk Uygur
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Bill Cosby Inspires California To Make BIG Change
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October 1, 2016
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7:42Now PlayingChanges are coming to laws in California, and Bill Cosby is the one to thank for it. Cenk Uygur, Hasan Piker, and Francis Maxwell, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
“Rapists and child molesters will no longer be able to avoid prosecution due to the statute of limitations in California.
The Justice for Victims Act, signed by Gov. Jerry Brown (D) Wednesday, abolishes the state’s 10-year statute of limitations for rape, child molestation and other felony sex crimes, starting next year.
“Rape survivors face many barriers to reporting this crime, but an arbitrary legal time limit is no longer a barrier in California,” said Caroline Heldman, an Occidental College professor who co-chaired the EndRapeSOL campaign that called for such a law. “This law will only affect a small number of survivors who have solid evidence that a crime occurred many years after the fact, but for these survivors, this law is life-changing.”
Seventeen other states have already eliminated the statute of limitations on rape, the Associated Press reports, citing the California Women’s Law Center.”
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