Articles Posted in Victim's Rights

Last week, on April 11, 2023, Governor Wes Moore signed the Child Victims Act of 2023 (CVA) into law. The CVA eliminates the statute of limitations and the statute of repose for survivors of child sexual abuse, permitting survivors to pursue civil claims against individual perpetrators and the organizations or entities who facilitated the abuse,…

On Friday, January 6, 2023, Silverman Thompson Slutkin & White filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City on behalf of Alyssa Mendez who alleges that in 2018 she was repeatedly sexually abused while still a minor by an NFB-affiliated employee, despite notifying NFB leadership. Ms. Mendez alleges that her experience was not…