{"id":118858,"date":"2019-06-05T06:32:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T11:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=118858"},"modified":"2019-06-05T06:32:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T11:32:51","slug":"end-sought-to-rape-statute-of-limitations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2019\/06\/05\/end-sought-to-rape-statute-of-limitations\/","title":{"rendered":"End sought to rape statute of limitations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>COLUMBUS &#8212; Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and former Attorneys General Richard Cordray, Nancy Rogers, Jim Petro, Betty Montgomery, and Lee Fisher are urging the Ohio General Assembly to eliminate the state\u2019s statute of limitations on rape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwNjAzLjY1NTMyNzEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTkwNjAzLjY1NTMyNzEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNzQxMTAwNCZlbWFpbGlkPWVkaXRvckB0aGV2d2luZGVwZW5kZW50LmNvbSZ1c2VyaWQ9ZWRpdG9yQHRoZXZ3aW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY29tJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mbXZpZD0mZXh0cmE9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;101&amp;&amp;&amp;https:\/\/www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov\/Files\/Briefing-Room\/News-Releases\/Letter_to_President_Obhof_and_Speaker_Householder.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter<\/a>&nbsp;to Senate President Larry Obhof (R-Medina) and Speaker of the House Larry Householder (R-Glenford), the six attorneys general supported Governor Mike DeWine\u2019s recent comments and called on the legislature to amend Ohio Revised Code section 2901.13 (A)(2) to include rape alongside murder as crimes that can be prosecuted without a statute of limitations. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t let a rapist run out the clock on justice,\u201d Yost said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than half the states have already eliminated the statute of limitations for rape. Ohio\u2019s current statute of limitations for rape is 20 years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe profound invasion of the person makes rape like no other crime &#8212; a violation of the body, the mind and the soul. We now know that the trauma associated with a rape has a lifetime impact on a survivor, making it a different sort of offense than theft or dealing drugs or extortion,\u201d the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/links.govdelivery.com\/track?type=click&amp;enid=ZWFzPTEmbXNpZD0mYXVpZD0mbWFpbGluZ2lkPTIwMTkwNjAzLjY1NTMyNzEmbWVzc2FnZWlkPU1EQi1QUkQtQlVMLTIwMTkwNjAzLjY1NTMyNzEmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xNzQxMTAwNCZlbWFpbGlkPWVkaXRvckB0aGV2d2luZGVwZW5kZW50LmNvbSZ1c2VyaWQ9ZWRpdG9yQHRoZXZ3aW5kZXBlbmRlbnQuY29tJnRhcmdldGlkPSZmbD0mbXZpZD0mZXh0cmE9JiYm&amp;&amp;&amp;102&amp;&amp;&amp;https:\/\/www.ohioattorneygeneral.gov\/Files\/Briefing-Room\/News-Releases\/Letter_to_President_Obhof_and_Speaker_Householder.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter<\/a>&nbsp;reads. \u201cThat trauma is often a barrier for a survivor to even report the crime. Societal pressures also operate to discourage contemporaneous reports. No one delays reporting a robbery.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information COLUMBUS &#8212; Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost and former Attorneys General Richard Cordray, Nancy Rogers, Jim Petro, Betty Montgomery, and Lee Fisher are urging the Ohio General Assembly to eliminate the state\u2019s statute of limitations on rape. In a&nbsp;letter&nbsp;to Senate President Larry Obhof (R-Medina) and Speaker of the House Larry Householder (R-Glenford), the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 02:06:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}