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THE INEQUITY AND INAPPROPRIATENESS OF APPLYING STATUTES OF LIMITATIONS TO CIVIL ACTIONS ARISING FROM CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSE
Author(s) -
Beattie Beth
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
family court review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.171
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 1744-1617
pISSN - 1531-2445
DOI - 10.1111/j.174-1617.1993.tb00283.x
Subject(s) - plaintiff , sexual abuse , psychology , childhood abuse , statute , criminology , action (physics) , psychiatry , medicine , political science , suicide prevention , law , poison control , medical emergency , quantum mechanics , physics
This research examines the long‐term consequences of childhood sexual abuse, the unique circumstances surrounding such abuse, and how these circumstances lead to victims being unable to expeditiously initiate civil action against their abusers. The unfairness and the inappropriateness of applying traditional time limitation principals to plaintiff victims of childhood sexual abuse are then discussed. Finally, a more equitable test to be applied to cases involving actions by adult victims of childhood sexual abuse against their abusers is proposed.