In one of the most startling and cowardly moves last regular session, Shemia Fagan hid-out to avoid taking a vote that protects children from sexual abuse by public employees. When the bill was pulled to the floor of the House, Fagan was nowhere to be found. She arrived fashionably late just after the vote and her Democratic leadership covered it up by marking her"excused for house business.” She had no committees or work groups at the time that would have trumped her responsibilities on the House Floor. Unbelievably, a victim of sexual abuse has a two-year window to bring a civil suit when their abuser is a public employee (represented by unions that fund Shemia Fagan’s political campaigns). This bill would have closed the loophole that the Department of Justice testified would affect 20 victims per year.
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