{"id":92757,"date":"2018-05-03T18:19:17","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T22:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=92757"},"modified":"2018-05-03T12:20:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T16:20:53","slug":"magee-child-victims-act-helps-make-survivors-voices-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=92757","title":{"rendered":"Magee: Child Victims Act helps make survivors\u2019 voices heard"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33907\" style=\"width: 113px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-33907\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bill-Magee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"113\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bill-Magee.jpg 226w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Bill-Magee-128x150.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 113px) 100vw, 113px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bill Magee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Magee: Child Victims Act helps make survivors\u2019 voices heard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Assemblyman Bill Magee issued the following statement in regard to the Child Victims Act:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA victim of childhood sexual abuse should not be denied the opportunity to have their case heard in a court of law. It is a critical step for many on the long road to healing. I helped pass the Child Victims Act to help ensure more survivors can seek justice\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/assembly.state.ny.us\/leg\/?default_fld=&amp;leg_video=&amp;bn=A05885&amp;term=&amp;Summary=Y&amp;Actions=Y&amp;Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&amp;Floor%26nbspVotes=Y&amp;Memo=Y&amp;Text=Y&amp;LFIN=Y&amp;Chamber%26nbspVideo%2FTranscript=Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/assembly.state.ny.us\/leg\/?default_fld%3D%26leg_video%3D%26bn%3DA05885%26term%3D%26Summary%3DY%26Actions%3DY%26Committee%2526nbspVotes%3DY%26Floor%2526nbspVotes%3DY%26Memo%3DY%26Text%3DY%26LFIN%3DY%26Chamber%2526nbspVideo%252FTranscript%3DY&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1525448178893000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGQdvokQM2A6Y83Nf9QR-hzy1nzkQ\">(A.5885-A<\/a>). Coming forward can be a difficult uphill battle, but victims deserve time to cope \u2013 and support as they do. This measure not only helps survivors move forward with their lives, but also helps make our community safer by holding abusers accountable.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magee: Child Victims Act helps make survivors\u2019 voices heard Assemblyman Bill Magee issued the following statement in regard to the Child Victims Act: \u201cA victim of childhood sexual abuse should not be denied the opportunity to have their case heard in a court of law. It is a critical step for many on the long [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}