Child Victims
Act ads launch
BY ALEJANDRA O’CONNELL DOMENECH
A new public-service ad campaign for the Child
Victims Act was launched in Times Square on
Tuesday.
Safe Horizon, the largest victim-services nonprofi t
in the U.S., along with Lieutenant Governor Kathy
Hochul, unveiled the campaign, designed to educate
adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse of their
rights under the Child Victims Act enacted this year.
The launch included a video and public-service announcements
on Times Square billboards, featuring
state Senator Alessandra Biaggi, Assemblymembers
Catalina Cruz, Assemblymember Yuh-Line Niou and
Rodneyse Bichotte, all survivors of sexual abuse.
One of the ads quotes a tweet by Hochul: “There’s
a special place in hell for child abusers and leaders of
institutions who protected them. With #ChildVictimsAct
– the day of reckoning is here.”
The legislation allows accusers to fi le a criminal
claim against their abusers until age 28 and fi le a civil
claim until age 55. The new New York law also includes
a look-back period — a one-year window —
starting on Wed., Aug. 14, that allows for cases that
have expired to be revived. Before the law was enacted
earlier this year, New York State required that
such lawsuits be fi led by the time the victim was age
23.
The campaign is multi-platform and includes ads
on Facebook and YouTube, as well as placement before
movie previews in theaters starting this November.
The PSA stills featuring the legislators and fellow
survivor Brian Toale, will rotate on Clear Channel’s
Times Square screens.
Squirrel bite
fright at B.P.C.
BY ALEJANDRA O’CONNELL-DOMENECH
Beware of aggressive squirrels in Rockefeller
Park.
On Aug. 9, the Battery Park City Authority
published a warning on its Web site stating that it has
received reports of aggressive squirrels biting visitors
around the playground in Rockefeller Park.
According to ABC7 Eyewitness News, the New
York City Health Department receives about 30 reports
of squirrel bites annually, and since it started
doing rabies surveillance in 1992, has yet to fi nd a
single squirrel with rabies.
“Squirrels exhibiting aggressive behavior have usually
been fed by humans before — and are looking to
eat again, or feel threatened,” the Lower Manhattan
authority’s Web site states, after warning park visitors
not to feed the animals.
B.P.C.A. is meeting with the city Department of
Health offi cials this week to address the situation so
that park visitors can better enjoy the space.
Those bitten by an aggressive Battery Park squirrel
should report it to the Department of Health, as Assemblymember
Yuh-Line Niou tweeted on Tuesday.
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