Senator Brownsberger: I want to thank you and Representative Lawn for trying to move the SOL bills out of the Judiciary Committee, and getting your fellow Senators and Representatives to sign the petition that was sent to the Legislatures Leadership. However, getting it out of the Judiciary committee to the floor, is the problem. We …
Sexual Child Abuse
Ask Me About the Financial Costs of Sexual Abuse and Incest
Dear Senator Will Brownsberger, At 59, I still spend days working my brain out of chronic PTSD symptoms and dissociation that is so alive it changes all of my senses, just so I can sit and breathe. It is not war PTSD. Growing up, I gladly used any destructive patterns of living I could to …
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Legislators Express Support For Extending Statute of Limitations on Civil Child Sexual Abuse Claims
Last week, Senator Brownsberger and Representative Lawn submitted a letter, signed by over 100 legislators, to the Senate President and Speaker of the House, expressing their eagerness “for the opportunity to vote to abolish or retroactively extend the statute of limitations on civil lawsuits for childhood sexual abuse.” They recognized that “many victims are not ready …
SOL child sex abuse.
Mr. Brownsberger I am an ex Green Beret who graduate #1 in my class at the JFK Special Warefare school located at Ft Bragg, who was drugged and raped while attending the Fessenden school by a Teacher who drugged me while I was sleeping. CBS News broke my story http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7390149n and when I told my …
Statute of Limitations – My Story
To the Honorable Senator Will Brownsberger, In the fall of 2005,I drove from Rockford, Illinois to Columbus, Ohio to testify before the Senate Judiciary Hearings on SB-17, advocating measures eliminating timelines for survivors of childhood trauma. The following is, “My Story,” which was written in about forty-five minutes at the capital’s downtown Kinko’s, at 6:00 …
Getting the Language Right
In a recent email circulated among advocates on this issue, it was suggested that