re: #146 NJDhockeyfan

The statute of limitations is one of the issues that has stopped other prosecutions of sex abuse cases in the past. There’s good reason to have a reasonable statute of limitations - making sure that witnesses can reasonably remember details, gathering evidence, etc.

Do these laws need to be tweaked to extend the statute of limitations? I’m not so sure, but prosecutors and law enforcement has to do a better job of investigating allegations of abuse at the outset, rather than giving a cursory examination and claiming nothing happened only to later reopen cases to find something did happen but can’t act because the statute of limitations has run. If prosecutors and law enforcement was more vigorous in investigating these cases at the outset, some of these sexual predators could be stopped before they rack up numbers of victims.