Statutes of limitations for sex crimes further punish survivors. It’s time to end them.

Survivors seeking justice must navigate a gantlet. On top of the abuse itself, for many, there are also threats to one’s physical safety and emotional well-being, blaming and shaming, and the intersecting affronts of racism, transphobia, ableism or anti-immigrant bias. Statutes of limitations are an unnecessary, government-imposed barrier that makes achieving justice needlessly harder.