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I am writing to update you about recent positive developments concerning the Child Victims’ Act of New York as public attention and support for this important legislation continues to build. I urge you to continue to speak up about the importance of this bill, which will make it possible for victims of childhood abuse to get justice and will also expose pedophiles who continue to remain hidden. Following are some of recent activities you should know about.

"In determining whether or not a 'reasonable discovery of the injury and its causal relationship to the act of sexual abuse' was understood by the survivor, it is crucial to acknowledge that the survivor’s perception of the events constituting child sexual abuse may cause the survivor to misinterpret or recast the event as something other than what it was. Simply because a child sexual

abuse survivor is aware of sexual contact does not mean he will associate that contact with harm. Likewise, simply because a child sexual abuse survivor is aware that he is depressed, confused about his gender identity, or otherwise "different" than normal people does not mean that the harm in his mind is associated with the abuse. Stated another way, predatory sexual contact with a child is not only a physical insult but a toxic assault on the still developing mind of a child engendering confusion, self loathing, fear, secrecy and a variety of other well documented sequellae. To many judges, lawyers, therapists and other objectively situated observers it is a simple crime of power and sex with predictable injuries and impacts. For the survivor it is far from simple straight line understanding of cause and effect. The road to understanding these types of events is a path filled with mixed messages, confusion and denial all of which evolved from an out of context event and on immature psyche of a child left to process the event. In this way, child sexual abuse and how it impacts the operable accrual language of the statute in question makes the child sexual abuse survivor litigant different from any other tort victims." More