Get rid of ANY statute of limitations on childhood sexual abuse

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The Issue

When I was around the ages of 3-4, I began exhibiting sexual behaviors.

It wasn't until a young school age, on numerous occasions, I awoke to an adult (18+) male family member standing over me.

I remember having extremely vivid and detailed rape "nightmares", and would wake up feeling the pain from these "nightmares". I could remember very specific details and scenarios which coincides with the pain I felt. I was sickened.

I told a therapist when I was around 14 about these things.. it was brushed off. So I blamed myself, something had to be wrong with me to think such a way about a family member. --

That's what I had thought, until I turned 31, last year. The person who sexually abused me, as a very young child, into my teens, admitted to assaulting me. I now realize the gaps in my memory as a child are just repressed traumas, and those painful nightmares, were reality. 

After this family member admitted to sexually assaulting me.. while I slept.. as a young child -- he then sent pictures of his genitals to me, & suggested we meet to have sex.

There is NO REMORSE, NO GUILT.

I decided to contact an attorney for advice on my legal rights, solely based on this man sexually assaulting me.. because he admitted it. I was told by this attorney in my state, that due to the Statute of Limitations, I am SOL (shit-out-of-luck) in pressing any charges on him for his abuse.

Um, what? This person (an adult FAMILY member), wanted me dead, raped, and sleep assaulted me for years- as a CHILD.. but he waited until I was 31 to admit it, so.. oh well?

NO

This person is an incestuous pedophile, he deserves repercussions. This man should be locked up for the rest of his sad, pathetic life. I can only hope, one day he fears to awake in jail, to a grown man.. standing over him, almost every morning.. like he did to me as a child. 

This needs to be changed, it is 2021..

It is time to hold these disgusting pedophiles accountable.. if not for me, for the other childhood victims. So maybe they won't have to watch their aging abuser become a deacon at his church, and pretend to be someone he isn't.. like I have. 

Please consider signing my petition to fight for a victim's right to press charges, against an adult that sexually abused them as a child. Many of these children grow to repress the horrific things done to them, give them a VOICE.


There should be NO limits on charging someone guilty of sexually assaulting a child!

HELP ME BE A VOICE FOR CHANGE!

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***UPDATE***

12/02/2021

My father, my abuser, passed away on 11/30/2021. I am going to leave my story here, and petition up, because others deserve justice from this broken system, the laws still need to be changed. Please sign and share! Wrapping you all in love ♡

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