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Press Releases / June 20, 2019

NY Legislature Expands Statute of Limitations on Rape

Thirteen years after NOW-NYC and Women's Justice NOW worked to eliminate the statute of limitations on rape in the first degree, the NY legislature has extended the statute of limitations for rape in the second and third degree and criminal sexual acts in the second degree.