Model Alliance, Carré Otis + Lili Bernard to Make an Announcement

Push for Adult Survivors Act in New York Ahead of the State's Child Victims Act Window Closing August 13

NEW YORK, NY (08/12/2021) (readMedia)-- On Friday, the Model Alliance will join supermodel and survivor Carré Otis and artist and Bill Cosby survivor Lili Bernard to make an announcement and push for reformed statute of limitations for sexual abuse ahead of New York's Child Victims Act window closing that day.

The CVA, which became law in 2019, created expanded pathways to justice for survivors of childhood sexual abuse. The law both extended the criminal and civil statute of limitations forward and created a lookback window to allow time-barred survivors the opportunity to file retrospective civil lawsuits against their abusers and negligent institutions. Over 8,000 CVA cases have been filed in New York State. The lookback window expires on Friday. A bill that would extend the same opportunity to time-barred survivors who were over the age of 18 at the time of their abuse -- called the Adult Survivors Act -- stalled in the New York State Legislature.

WHO:

Sara Ziff, founder and executive director of the Model Alliance

Carré Otis, supermodel and survivor

Lili Bernard, artist and survivor

John Clune, attorney

Debbie Greenberger, attorney

Anita Teekah, senior director, anti-trafficking program at Safe Horizon
WHAT:

Model Alliance, Carré Otis + Lili Bernard to Make an Announcement
WHEN: Friday August 13, 2021 at 12:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
WHERE: Zoom - See Notes
New York
NOTES:

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