The Child Sexual Abuse Accountability Act, a landmark new law in Colorado, gives survivors of child sexual assault a chance for justice, even if the …
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Members of CCASA’s Survivor Task Force and Executive Director, Brie Franklin, talk about the impact of the Cosby case. “To have that dismissed on a …
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Indigenous people in the United States are victims of high rates of violence. The Centers for Disease Control estimates about half of Native women are raped or …
Read moreGrassroots Colorado Group Seeks To Prevent Violence Against Indigenous People
Senate Bill 88 would give survivors of abuse after 1960 for whom the civil statute of limitations has expired the ability to file lawsuits during …
Rep. Dafna Michaelson Jenet, one of the bill’s sponsors, said when lawmakers killed the bill last year as the pandemic took hold, it was devastating. …
Read moreColorado will lift time limits in 2022 for victims to sue child sex abusers
Pending state legislation is a step toward equity for survivors who deserve the same access, respect and dignity as any other patient. “Survivors who live …
“What we know about statutes of limitations is that they only serve to the benefit of the perpetrator, and they prevent survivors from actually accessing …
Read moreNew bill would end statute of limitations for sexual assault in Colorado
“There was always an appetite to try to address the decades-old, well-documented history of child sexual abuse and institutional cover up in Colorado,” said Raana …
Raana Simmons, Director of Public Affairs of CCASA, says the bill is narrowly tailored to target bad actors who knew, or should have known, about the abuse and did nothing to stop it.
The Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault has debuted a new website called “You Have the Right,” which provides survivors and others with resources to identify, …
Read more“You Have the Right” website debuts to aid sex assault survivors, loved ones