{"id":8458,"date":"2009-03-13T08:12:44","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T16:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8458"},"modified":"2009-03-13T08:12:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T16:12:44","slug":"why-are-some-orthodox-jews-fighting-a-bill-that-would-end-the-statute-of-limitations-on-child-abuse-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8458","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Some Orthodox Jews Fighting A Bill That Would End The Statute Of Limitations On Child Abuse In New York?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/12\/nyregion\/12abuse.html\">The New York Times reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Roman Catholic and Orthodox Jewish officials in New York are mounting an intense lobbying effort to block a bill before the State Legislature that would temporarily lift the statute of limitations for lawsuits alleging the sexual abuse of children.<\/p>\n<p>But while the Catholic Church is leading the opposition, in recent months a loose coalition of disparate groups has also joined the effort. They include leaders of the Hasidic and Sephardic Jewish institutions in Brooklyn, which could face equally costly abuse claims. The <a title=\"More articles about New York Civil Liberties Union\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/organizations\/n\/new_york_civil_liberties_union\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">New York Civil Liberties Union<\/a> and the criminal defense bar oppose lifting statutes of limitation as unfair to the accused, who must defend themselves against claims of transgressions decades old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times reports: Roman Catholic and Orthodox Jewish officials in New York are mounting an intense lobbying effort to block a bill before the State Legislature that would temporarily lift the statute of limitations for lawsuits alleging the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=8458\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[16698,7276,16701,16699,1085,16700],"class_list":["post-8458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abuse","tag-civil-liberties-union","tag-jewish-institutions","tag-jewish-officials","tag-new-york-civil-liberties-union","tag-orthodox-jews","tag-york-civil-liberties-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}