Brian Laird on W,

on WNYc. Now we will turn our attention to the closure of the Adult Survivors Act

look back window as it's called and some of the news stories that have come from it might feel like we're back in the height of me too with

some of these headlines pegged to this closing of the window over the last few weeks

numerous powerful men have been implicated in sexual assault lawsuits.

Front man of guns and roses, Axel Rose, actors like Cuba Gooding Jr. and Jamie Fox,

just to name a few, most relevant to our political orbit is New York

City Mayor Eric Adams as well as former governor Andrew Cuomo once again.

Like me too some of these lawsuits have inspired others to also speak out and seek legal

action against their alleged perpetrators. Cassandra Ventura, known by her stage name Cassie,

dropped a bombshell suit against hip-hop mogul Sean Diddy Combs.

In it, she shared details of a decade-long alleged cycle of abuse, including experiences of

rape, battery, sex trafficking, among other. of A week later, two other alleged victims filed suits alleging similar encounters.

Unlike Me Too, these allegations are not simply stories. These are lawsuits filed in New York State allowing victims to seek justice for crimes that they say were committed against them, passed the statute of limitations.

That's what the look back window was. The New York State

legislature decided there's enough sexual abuse that goes unreported in the

world that the statute of limitations has been too short in the past so they

opened this one year look back window when anybody could file a sexual assault

claim from any time in the past deadline just recently before

Thanksgiving and now it's closed. So these claims will be judged in a court of

law rather than in the press in the court of law

rather than in the press or the court of public opinion

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