00:00My abuser, my stepfather was an auxiliary police officer. So for me, I couldn't go to the police
00:07station because I thought that they would not believe me as a little girl over him as one of
00:13them. So that's why I didn't go to the police station because people are like, you should have
00:17went, you should have went. I remember when I first started looking to see, going to the library and
00:23not finding information out there to be able to help me. I'm like, I want to talk about it.
00:29And it wasn't until I saw in the newspaper to call 1-800-DIAL-A-LAWYER. And I got to
00:35talk to an
00:36attorney and I said, you know, I'm able to talk about it. What can I do to get justice from
00:43what
00:43I went through as a young, innocent child? And the attorney said, sorry, Kathy, there's nothing that
00:49you can do. The statute of limitations, the timeframe had run out. And I couldn't believe that I heard
00:56that. And I spent many, many years going to the Boston State House, writing to them, emailing them,
01:04calling them, so much so that I had one of the aides say, Kathy, stop calling me. You are bothering
01:11me.
01:12And I said, I'm a taxpayer. You need to do your job. I could not get him on criminal charges.
01:18It went June 26, 2014. The law changed where a survivor could only be to the age of 21.
