Missouri senator renews effort to remove statute of limitations in childhood sexual abuse cases

[Jim Burton]

https://www.kmbc.com/article/missouri-s ... s/69597910

"We live in Missouri where survivors of childhood sexual abuse were silenced."

Sen. Brad Hudson isn’t opposed to a second swing at bat. His comes in the form of legislation - and it's a swing for the fences.

"This is so important, so vital and we didn't want it to slip through the cracks," Hudson says from his desk in Jefferson City, Missouri, at the Capitol.

On Monday, Dec. 1, he refiled a bill with the Missouri Senate seeking to eliminate the statute of limitations on bringing civil suits in instances of childhood sexual abuse.

He filed it last session, too, but it stalled in a Senate committee.