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More advocacy for sex abuse victims, Independent, February 15, 2013

Blatz was a judge in 1989 when the original statute passed in Minnesota that said people had six years from the time they knew or had reason to know injury was caused by sexual abuse. In 1996, the Minnesota Supreme Court interpreted that statute to mean that a child who is sexually abused immediately knows they are injured and has only until their 24th birthday to file a lawsuit. That law, she says, is antiquated and needs to change.